Great British Food Christmas 2024

THE ULTIMATE CHEESEBOARD Christmas isn't the samewithout a platter overflowingwith delicious cheese... Here's our pick of the ones worth celebrating this season 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. Belton FarmRed Fox, from£3, Waitrose, Tesco, Morrison and Ocado Red Fox is handcrafted at Belton Farmwhere their cheesemakers use a unique recipe developed over many years. Belton Farm’s starter cultures have been carefully selected to produce a cheese with an intense and complex blend of sweet, savoury and distinctively nutty flavours. 2. Cote Hill FarmCote Hill Blue, from£4.85, dukeshill.co.uk A soft blue cheese made in Lincolnshire from unpasteurised cow's milk. It has a stunning flavour, a robust blue punch and a wonderfully creamy consistency. 3. Hollis Mead, Truffled Benville, £12.95, dukeshill.co.uk The award-winning Benville Brie is utterly sumptuous and creamy. A 100%pasture fed organic British triple cream cheese which won three gold stars in the Great Taste Awards 2022. Hand-picked from a family-runWest-Dorset organic dairy farmwhere the cows simply eat pasture grown on the farm. They yieldmuch closer to their natural lactationmeaningmore concentrated, higher quality milk. 4. Long Clawson Dairy 1912 Artisan Stilton, £3, clawson.co.uk Crafted to perfection by four generations of Long Clawson Dairy’s master cheesemakers, 1912 Artisan Stilton is a perfect balance of pure creaminess and intense tanginess. 5. Clawson Farms Dormouse’s Delight Wax Truckle, £5.49, clawsonfarms.co.uk Wensleydale with cranberry, elderflower and marmalade. There’s nothing Dorothea Dormouse enjoys more than the crumbly delight of creamyWensleydale subtly infused with delicious tangy cranberries, gentle elderflower and a hint of spicedmarmalade made with Seville oranges – it quite wears a body out, all that pleasure, so she’s having a little rest. 6. Godminster Vintage Bruton Beauty, £5.50, Waitrose Godminster's original cheddar, this modern andmoreish cheese boasts a signature smoothness and is matured for up to 12months. 97 greatbr i t i shfoodawards.com SHOPP ING | CHEESE