Cheddar vs Dorset Drum
Cheddar
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Place
- Cheddar, Somerset
Cheddar is a pressed cow's-milk cheese from Somerset, in the west of England. The name comes from the village of Cheddar and from Cheddar Gorge, but most cheddar eaten today is made far from that village.
Dorset Drum
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Country
- United Kingdom
Dorset Drum is a cow's milk cheddar from Dorset in the United Kingdom. The name refers to a small cylindrical truckle, shaped like a drum, rather than to a herb or a blue mold. The farmhouse version was clothbound, with a firm paste and a medium-strong, savory taste. A black wax cheddar has also been sold under the same name, and it is a different product. The clothbound farmhouse cheese is the one older notes mean by Dorset Drum.