Denhay Cheese and Childhood Memories

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Denhay are well known to me for their bacon and it is so good fresh and tasty, just how I remember bacon tasting when I was young http://given-to-distracting-others.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/denhay-bacon-review-and-farmhouse.html  


Do you remember when food tasted fresh and good, real butter, real bread from a bakers, no additives.

I loved my cheese, I remember it wrapped in greaseproof paper cut off a huge block when I was a child, it would taste fresh. Now some cheese can be tasteless, a bit plasticky, I never am sure if its the wrapping or the process it goes through now.

Back to my memory of eating today's Denhay's cheddar. Its real,its like a childhood memory.

Nothing is quite so satisfying to me than a cheese sandwich. I am pretty fussy with my cheese, it has to be mature and it has to be a good one.

I love it in a roll, with a salad, wine and cheese evenings are a regular here.

Denhay's cheddar ticks all the boxes, its a good strong creamy taste, slightly salty and very rounded.  It tastes fresh and left to warm slightly before eating the depth of flavour really shines.Goes great with a farm shop pork pie and well whatever you fancy.


Ahh memories and talking of those, I will be back with a cookery themed prize courtesy of Denhay's later this week.

ROAST TURKEY RULES THE ROOST IN OUR CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

 

Our top three childhood memories revolve around food, according to a recent report from cheese and bacon producer Denhay Farms. Nearly one in four Brits – 24% of us – has identified the carving of the ‘big bird’ in the middle of the Christmas table as their earliest memory from childhood.  Just under a fifth of us (15%) clearly remember tucking into fish and chips by the seaside and for one in 10 (10%) it’s the memory of school dinners that sticks in our minds.

 

Baking moments remain prominent in our food memories, and over a third of us (38%) admit that licking the batter out of the bowl is our strongest memory of learning to cook.  

Family and tradition play an important role with 34% of Brits choosing Sunday lunch as their fondest family food moment.  In addition, and contrary to recent reports* suggesting a decline in family meals, almost half of Brits (43%) still insist on sitting together at the dinner table as a family and a quarter of us (26%) will not allow the TV to be on during dinner. 

As further proof of the British love affair with bacon, and proving once again that it is worthy of the top spot on Britain’s Top 100 Foods**, it’s the smell of the mighty rasher sizzling in a pan that holds the most powerful memory for one in 10 Brits.  The smell of bacon is responsible for almost a fifth (16%) of the strongest food memories in the North East, the highest in the country, and more over 55’s (over one in 10) than any other age group praise bacon with bringing back fond memories of childhood. 

Surprisingly, it’s the food served at weddings that makes the least impact and, despite the effort that goes into creating the perfect menu, we needn’t worry as only 2% of us remember it!  Being cooked for by our partners also fails to impress us Brits as only 4% of men and 3% of women recall the first romantic meal cooked for them.

 

Psychologist Dr Jane McCartney explains, “The association between smell, taste and emotion is what triggers our memories, therefore it makes sense that food plays a big part in our most prominent memories.”

Denhay have been making award-winning West Country Farmhouse Cheddar on the farm since June 1959, using traditional skills and techniques employed in the Marshwood Vale and the West Country for generations. Denhay's cheddar has had PDO status since the mid 90s, is made entirely from milk from their own herd of cows and is made by hand before maturing on the farm and aged for at least 9 months for a distinctive, nutty, mellow flavour.