Stinking Bishop Cheese

Stinking Bishop Cheese is made from pasteurized cow's milk curdled with a vegetarian Rennet. Before being put into moulds, the curds are washed with Perry made from Stinking Bishop Pears (thus its name), which grow on the Gloucestershire-Herefordshire border. The cheese is not salted until after it is removed from the mould, in order to allow a bit more bacterial activity.

The cheeses come out of the moulds about 7 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches tall, weighing about 5 pounds (20 cm wide, 4 cm tall, 2 kg.)

Once turned out of its mould, the cheese is aged from 6 to 8 weeks. During this time, the rind is washed with Perry. The cheese ends up with an orangish-yellow, sticky rind.

The cheese really is very smelly; it smells like old socks. The smell is so pronounced that if you buy some at one store and carry the bag into another or onto a bus, people around you will notice. Most of the smell, however, is in the rind. The flavour is much milder, with a tang almost like a mild vinegar. The cheese itself is soft and creamy.

Made in Dymock, Gloucestershire.

Muenster

Though attributed to old recipes from monasteries, the cheese actually started being made sometime in the 1980s/1990s by a man named Charles Martell. Martell is a pear and a Gloucestershire cow enthusiast; the Stinking Bishop Cheese brought together his two interests. Before making Stinking Bishop, he made Single Gloucester, which he helped obtain its PDO status in 1997.

Also called:

See Also: Gloucester Cheese, Perry, Protected Designation of Origin

Other entries for: Washed-Rind Cheeses
Appenzeller Cheese, Bishop Kennedy Cheese, Chue Fladae Cheese, Epoisses Cheese, Fontina Cheese, Milleens Cheese, Pied de Vent Cheese, Port du Salut Cheeses, Port Salut Cheese, Reblochon Cheese, Soumaintrain Cheese, Stinking Bishop Cheese, Taleggio Cheese, Tête de Moine Cheese, Tilsit Cheese

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Affinage, American Cheeses, Casu Marzu, Cheese Rinds, Creamery, Double/Triple-Cream Cheese, Extra-Hard Cheeses, Firm Cheeses, Goat's Milk Cheeses, Mexican Cheeses, Pate (of a Cheese), Processed Cheese, Queso Fundido, Rennet, Semi-Firm Cheeses, Sheep's Milk Cheeses, Skim-Milk Cheeses, Smear-Ripened Cheeses, Soft Cheeses, Surface-Ripened Cheeses, Sweet Curd Cheeses, The Crumblies, Truckle, Washed-Curd Cheeses, Yak Cheese, Yeel Cheese

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