Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Dorset Blue Vinney (frequently spelled vinny) is a traditional blue cheese made near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England, from cows' milk. It is a hard, crumbly cheese. It was formerly made of skimmed milk. Vinney may be the Dorset form of the archaic word vinny ("moldy") or perhaps a corruption of veiny, referring to its blue veins.
Dorset Drum was a small farmhouse cheddar made in Dorset, England. The cheese was of a medium-strong flavour and the clothbound truckle was usually matured for between 6 and 9 months. They varied in size from 400g to 2kg but were always cylindrical in shape, hence the name. The cheese was produced by Denhay Farm near Bridport in west Dorset. [1]
One of the earliest detailed reports on the diet of a Dorset labourer, by Sir Frederick Eden in 1795, describes an impoverished position: The usual breakfast of the family is tea, or bread and cheese, their dinner and supper, bread and cheese, or potatoes sometimes mashed with fat taken from broth, and sometimes salt alone.
They are named after their shape's resemblance to Dorset knob buttons, [1] but have also been compared, in size, to door knobs. [1] Dorset knobs are typically eaten with cheese (for example, Dorset Blue Vinney). [2] Dorset knobs were said by his parlour maid to have been a favourite food of local author Thomas Hardy. [1]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
This page was last edited on 28 December 2019, at 08:08 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Dorset (/ ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t / DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire / ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t. ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / DOR-sit-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England.It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south-east, the English Channel to the south, and Devon to the west.
A faggot of untrimmed branches [2] Beas' Beast, usually refers to cattle [2] Beatplough: A tool used for cutting turf [2] Becall: To deride Bedraggled angels Wet sheep Beens: Because, possible contraction of 'being as' [2] Bee-pot: Beehive [2] Beknown: Known about Bennits: The bent tips of grasses and similar [2] Ben't Wasn't Bibber: Shiver ...