EU Protected Food Names Scheme - UK registered names
Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 - Application for Registration Article 17
Protected
Designation of Origin
National application No: 00513- White Stilton Cheese
1. Competent service of the Member State:
Name: United Kingdom - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Tel: 020 7238 6687
Fax: 020 7328 5728
2. Applicant group:
a) Name: The Stilton Cheese Makers' Association
b) Address: PO Box384A, Surbiton, Surrey, KT5 9YL
c) Composition: producer/processor (7)
3. Name of product:
White Stilton Cheese
4. Type of product (see list in Annex VI):
Cheese Class 1.3
5. Specification - Summary of requirement under Article 4(2)):
a) Name:
White Stilton Cheese
b) Description of Product:
White cheese made in cylindrical form from full cream cow's milk with no applied pressure and forming its own crust.
c) Geographical area:
The Counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
d) Proof of origin:
The cheese gained its reputation from being sold at the Bell Inn, a coaching inn, in the town of Stilton on the Great North Road in the early 18th century. The first literary evidence is in Daniel Defoe's "Tour through England and Wales" published in 1727 where he notes that in 1722 he passed "through Stilton, a town famous for cheese." Stilton was then made in the Melton Mowbray area of Leicestershire and the name has for at least the last 80 years been used in connection only with cheese made in the designated
e) Method of production:
Milk comes from the designated area except in times of shortage when it may come from the surrounding counties of Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . Starter cultures and rennet are added. Curds are formed which are cut, milled into walnut sized pieces and salted. Then put into cylindrical cheese moulds for up to seven days. The moulds are turned top to tail to drain. Mould is then removed and the surface sealed. It is usually sold within 3 weeks.
f) Link
The geographical conditions in the area produce a rich high quality milk. There is a unique pool of knowledge and expertise in the area which has been passed down through the generations. Unique local recipe.
g) Inspection bodies:
Product Authentication International Ltd
Address: Rowland House, 65 High Street, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1DN.
Tel: 01903 237799
Fax: 01903 204445
h) Labelling:
PDO
i) National requirements (if any):
EC No:
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