Semi-soft Cow’s milk

Caerphilly

A miner’s cheese — salty enough to replace what a shift underground took out.

Drawn by the app from this cheese’s own record — paste, rind and texture come from the data, not a stock library.

Made in south Wales as a young, salty, fast-selling cheese; the salt was said to be why colliers carried it down the pit. Nearly wiped out by wartime rationing and revived by a handful of farmhouse makers.

A mature Caerphilly has two textures in one slice: crumbly and lemony in the middle, soft and mushroomy in the ring under the rind. Excellent grilled on bread.

Tastes of

lemon salt fresh cream mushroom at the rind

Put it next to

Welsh ale Leeks Toast Pickle