VACANCY If working in an office in front of a computer is your idea of hell, we have the ideal job vacancy for you! Are you fit and active and like to be outside speaking to customers? Would you... read more
National Cream Tea Day Friday 30th June Did you know that Friday 30th of June is National Cream Tea Day? To celebrate, we have a few offers on in the Cheese Loft Cafй: Cream Scone and Jam for Ј2.00 (normally Ј2.65):a freshly baked fruit scone (we make them every morning! No microwaved rubbish with us!), with Tiptree jam and Roddas clo... read more
We receive 100s of enquiries for Cheese Wedding Cakes, and who wouldn't want one? An alternative to your regular fruit cake, this savoury beauties can be served as the cheese or dessert course, look the part, and are the perfect munchies after happy champagne swigging. ... read more
Farming... here is where cheese making all begins. We are extremely lucky to be based on the Blagdon Estate:not only is it a beautiful location, but we can also source our cows' milk from the farm on the estate. This is fantastic for two main reasons: 1) Our milk is traceable:We get all of our dairy milk from the farm on the estate (the cows are less than 2 miles away from us), and so if we had any difficulties with our milk, we could get to the root of any problem quickly. 2) We are supporting a l... read more
Produced in Northumberland is the brain child of Dawn Goodwill-Evans (Active Northumberland) and Ken Henderson (Fair Trading Officer at Northumberland County Council). It is a verification scheme designed to make Northumbrian products identifiable by the Produced in Northumberland trade mark. PDO or a PGI is a protected trade name, in accordance with Eu... read more
Northumberland Cheese Company has had a fantastically successful summer of awards this year. We began with the Artisan Cheese Awards in Melton Mowbray (they were at the end of April, but we think that almost counts as summer!), where we were delighted to gain a Bronze award for our Brinkburn in the best goats' cheeese category, and we won a silver award for best newcomer for Northumberlandia; we were especially excited about this, as Northumberlandia is a new face in the cheese world this year. Next, we had the Great... read more
Need a cheese or scone fix over the festive period? This is when The Cheese Loft Cafe and shop will be open.... 24th December: 10-4pm (last Kitchen orders 2pm) 25th, 26th, 27th December: Closed 28th December: 10-5pm (last kitchen orders 3pm) 29th December: 10-5pm (last kitchen orders 3pm) 30th December:10-5pm (last kitchen orders 3pm) 31st December:&... read more
With the plethora of cheese delights on the website, we thought we would publish a guide to direct you through it.... For the Indulgent foodie in your life.... ...It has to be the 12 Days of Christmas Hamper (we did say indulgent, didn't we). With 12 different cheeses in the hamper, cheese fans and big families like will be giddy with choice... read more
Brinkburn, our mould-ripened Goats' cheese, is stealing all of the limelight at Northumberland Cheese this year! It has just won Gold at the Guild of Fine Food World Cheese Awards, for hard-pressed goats' cheese. We were overjoyed with this accolade! It joins a few awards in our Brinkburn trophy cabinet, including Gold at the Nantwich International Cheese Awards, Gold at the Great Yorkshire Show (Speciality Goats' cheese), and Gold at Dumfries and Lockerbie. We are very proud of Brinkburn this year! It is unique as a goats' cheese, becaus... read more
Nicholson’s Butchers in Whitley Bay, headed-up by Kathryn Nicholson, submitted a home-made individual Steak and Blagdon Blue Cheese Pie in the Hot Pies and Bakery Category at Q Guild Smithfield Awards, and was awarded a perfect score in the category. Kathryn explained her inspiration:‘This product uses locally sourced Blagdon Blue Cheese, inspired by the need for warm, comforting foods.’ This merited a diamond award:we're so proud! ... read more
It was Noel, our jolly farmers market man who introduced us to Brian at Northumbrian Preserves. Another regular at farmers markets across the region, Noel got to know Brian and his wonderful chutneys and jams, and thought it might be something we would be interested in. We are always trying to source products f... read more
I think this is such a simple recipe but with loads of great tastes and complementary flavours. An easy work night meal or spruce it up a bit for a fab starter. I use ... read more
.png)