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Shropshire Blue
Shropshire Blue is a cow’s-milk blue cheese with an orange paste coloured by annatto and blue-green Penicillium roqueforti veins. Texture is creamy yet sliceable, between Stilton and milder blues; flavour is tangy, salty, and mildly spicy with buttery richness from the coloured curd. Despite the Shropshire name, modern production has strong ties to Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire dairies in the Stilton tradition. It is served on cheese boards, crumbled into salads, and melted sparingly into sauces and burgers.
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Early recipes for an orange-hued blue cow’s-milk cheese emerged in British creamery experimentation.
Commercial Shropshire Blue was established as a distinct orange-and-blue table cheese.
Production consolidated at major blue-cheese dairies in the East Midlands Stilton region.
Export and supermarket specialty lines made Shropshire Blue widely available outside the UK.
Consistent veining and creamier paste standards defined modern premium Shropshire Blue.