The secrets of Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire cheese
Making cheese is bloody hard work, but it isn’t just a job, it’s a way of life. Back in the day, my mum was making five or six cheeses a day on her own. Nowadays, Mrs Kirkham’s has a team of five full-timers and one part-timer, and we make about 20 10kg cheeses a day. Big dairies churn out thousands of kilos a day, so in the cheese world, we’re minute.
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Gougères are based on the classic French pâte à choux. It’s surprisingly light as you pick it up, almost insubstantial and still hot from the oven. The crispy shell crunches as you pull it open, releasing a puff of savory steam. Then you hit the middle: soft, eggy, and indecently cheesy. Two bites and it’s gone.
“Heather Paxson, an anthropology professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, uncovered a similar sentiment when she explored the world of modern American artisan cheesemakers for her book “The Life of Cheese.” Both scholarly and accessible, the book profiles people who make cheese and delves into the science, art, politics, and culture, as it were, of these artisan products.”



