Stilton Cheese - Similar Cheeses

Similar Cheeses

A number of blue cheeses are made in a similar way to Blue Stilton. All these cheeses get their blue veins from the saprotrophic fungus Penicillium roqueforti. Examples include Gorgonzola cheese of Italy, which is made from either cows' or goats' milk; and Roquefort, which is made with ewes' milk.

Stichelton is made in the same way as Stilton cheese and uses cows' milk from a permitted county (Nottinghamshire), but the milk is unpasteurised and so under the PDO it cannot be designated as true Stilton.

Since the PDO came into effect, some British supermarkets have been stocking a generic British Blue cheese. Other makers have gained the confidence to adopt their own names, and styles. Blacksticks Blue, Garstang Blue, Cote Hill and Lincoln Blue are typical examples.

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