Stinking bishop

The Stinking bishop (" bishop puant") is an English cow's milk cheese to hard paste and washed Croûte.

Description

The stinking bishop presents an orange crust. Presenting holes, its texture is variable: it can be rather firm, or frankly crémeux, according to the season. Its diameter is of 20 centimetres, its height 4 centimetres. A part can weigh 2 kilos. Content of grease: 48%.

It has a Odeur characteristic of old socks, due to washing, but its Goût surprises agreeably after the olfactive surprise.

The specialists bring closer this Fromage to the époisses French, whereas others bring it closer to the munster.

Manufacture

The crust of the stinking bishop is washed in pear brandy (Perry), more precisely of the Poire éponyme, every four weeks. The Affinage takes six to eight weeks. The cheese is not salted before it left its mould, in order to encourage the bacterial activity.

Annual production: approximately 340 kilos.

History

It is said that the stinking bishop is in the beginning a cheese manufactured by monks cistercians with Dymock (the United Kingdom). Its redécouverte, in 1972, is due to Charles Martell, domiciled slag with Dymock, more precisely in Laurel Farm. It is coupled with the re-creation of the cow of Gloucester race.

The Gloucester cow

Charles Martell is interested in the Vache of the Race Gloucester, of which there remained only 68 representatives in the world in 1972. The man repurchased some as much as it could, and revived the Company of breeding of the Gloucester cow, of which he is president. In addition, it decided to make Fromage with their Lait, which was to ensure a certain publicity to him. Since, the race thrived. Charles Martell itself has 25 cows Gloucester, which enables him to produce an about viable quantity of stinking bishop, even if it must sometimes cut the Lait of the Gloucester cows with that of Friesian cows. A constraint which implies that milk being used for the production of the stinking bishop is pasteurized.

Sources

Cheese.com * Teddington Cheese
Stinking Bishop cheese in English

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