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Cheddar cheese

Cheddar cheese is a famous English cheese but it is also made all over the world. In 1859, a farmer called Joseph Harding wrote down how his wife made her excellent cheeses. He also gave talks on the best way of making cheese. But Joseph Harding had a very large family and his farm was too small for his seven daughters and six sons. So his sons left home and went to Canada to make cheese, taking the recipe for farmhouse cheese with them. Cheesemakers in Denmark and America also started making cheese like this. These regional Cheddar cheeses are still produced today.

But where does the name come from? Strangely Cheddar cheese did not, and does not, come only from the place called Cheddar. There is a famous tourist attraction called Cheddar Gorge and in the nineteenth century tourists took the cheese home as a gift for their families, and called it Cheddar cheese. And that’s how it got its name.

In the twentieth century many small family farms stopped producing cheese. In 1939 there were five hundred farms making cheddar but by 1974 there were thirty-three. Luckily, some families continued to make cheese in the traditional way, and now more and more farms are making it again. The Kittle family in Somerset have their own cows and use their own milk to make cheddar. Mr Kittle says he usually eats the cheese they make on his own, or with bread or biscuits, but he thinks it’s best eaten hot on toast, washed down with a glass of beer.

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Cheddar cheese was made ... .

at the beginning of the nineteenth century

in the middle of the nineteenth century

in the middle of the nineteenth century

in the middle of the eighteenth century