Gloucester cheese vs Red Leicester
Gloucester cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
Gloucester cheese is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese from the United Kingdom, and it comes in two familiar forms. Single Gloucester is paler, milder, and traditionally made with a leaner milk. Double Gloucester is richer, deeper in color, and the form most shops sell. Annatto gives Double Gloucester its apricot tint, and the color is not a sign of long age. Both are slicing cheeses with a smooth, close paste.
Red Leicester
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Place
- Leicester, Leicestershire
Red Leicester is a hard cow's milk cheese from Leicester, in Leicestershire, in the United Kingdom. Annatto colors the paste a deep orange red, and that hue is traditional rather than a mark of extra age. The body is firm and a little crumbly, with a clean break. The flavor is nutty, mellow, and slightly sweet. It stands with other pressed English cheeses and works in many of the same kitchen jobs as cheddar, without being cheddar.