Shropshire Blu is a British cheese, specifically Scottish, and is one of the rare and excellent cases where our portal looks beyond Italy. Exceptional cheese! Made with pasteurized cow's milk, soft, with a distinctive and very pleasant taste. This cheese has a gray-brown rind, hard, cracked, spotted with various molds. The paste is semi-hard, unpressed, orange: it owes its characteristic color to the addition of a natural coloring, annatto. Annatto is a natural yellow-reddish coloring (E160b), a carotenoid extracted from a wild plant of the Amazon, Bixa orellana. The intense orange of annatto pairs well with the green/blue mold of Penicillium Roqueforti. After salting, the product is aged for at least 12 weeks, but it is worth waiting longer.
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Shropshire Blu is a British cheese, specifically Scottish, and is one of the rare and excellent cases where our portal looks beyond Italy. Exceptional cheese! Made with pasteurized cow's milk, soft, with a distinctive and very pleasant taste. This cheese has a gray-brown rind, hard, cracked, spotted with various molds. The paste is semi-hard, unpressed, orange: it owes its characteristic color to the addition of a natural coloring, annatto. Annatto is a natural yellow-reddish coloring (E160b), a carotenoid extracted from a wild plant of the Amazon, Bixa orellana. The intense orange of annatto pairs well with the green/blue mold of Penicillium Roqueforti. After salting, the product is aged for at least 12 weeks, but it is worth waiting longer.
