Our Christmas Bits

Christmas Jam

Stilton becomes milder and mellows with age, so this Mature Stilton makes a perfect introduction blue cheese. It is matured for longer and is soft, rich and creamy but still has that distinctive blue cheese tang. It is made in Leicestershire using local cows’ milk and is protected by a PDO. In fact, Long Clawson is one of only six dairies in the world licensed to make Blue Stilton. This Mature Blue Stilton is perfect on salted buttery crackers with a glass of Shiraz.

Brandy is added to Devon's Clotted Cream range to give the ultimate in Christmas indulgence. Perfect dolloped on mince pies or Christmas pudding - this little beauty is also super handy as a super long date - approx 10 months, as long as it is kept in the fridge please!

Burgundy's most pungent cheese and its most famous. Epoisses Gaugry has a soft, oozy, luscious texture and a rich, savoury and powerful flavour.

Epoisses cheese has a distinctive, sticky, wrinkled rind, which can vary in colour from ivory to orange, and even a darker shade of brick red. The rind is developed by regularly washing the surface of the young cheese with a mixture of brine and Marc de Bourgogne. The cheeses are washed for four to six weeks. As the cheese ripens, the smooth surface becomes more and more wrinkled and sticky, and the colour changes through the natural development of Brevibacterium moulds.

Keeping it local - Langage Farm, from Plymouth, have been making clotted cream for over 50 years, from their herd of Channel Island cows. It has an amazingly smooth texture and nutty flavour and don't forget that luscious, thick, golden crust, baked to perfection!

The fruit of the satsuma is sweet and usually seedless, about the size of other mandarin oranges, smaller than an orange.

This turkey is butterfly boned and rolled and weighs a very convienient 2kgs - we have managed to secure this price until the end of September so ideal to buy early and freeze for Christmas? 

It should happily feed 8 hungry mouths; just think of all those 'afters'... turkey curry, yummy sandwiches with pickles and cranberries, pies; the list is endless....