Five counties

As a Five Counties [ ˌfajv kawn.tiːz ] ( Listen ^{? / I} ) (English for "[off] five counties") refers to an English specialty cheese.

For the preparation, five types of aged cheese are chopped up and put together in layers to form loaves weighing approx. 1 kg . The following are used for this:

• Cheddar (golden yellow to orange)
• Leicester (strong yellow)
• Cheshire (white)
• Double Gloucester (golden yellow)
• Derby [ ˈdɑːbɪ ] (normal yellow )

literature

• Anne Iburg: DuMont's little cheese lexicon. Production, origin, varieties, taste. DuMont Monte, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8320-8824-5 , p. 88.