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Cheddar

noun

A village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made.

Hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England. Synonyms: American cheese, Armerican cheddar, cheddar cheese.

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"Cheddar" Quotes from Famous Books

... all left him and Glastonbury for Winchester, and so it came to pass that on the appointed day a dozen of us rode with a train of men and hounds after us along the westward slopes of the Mendips in the direction of Cheddar, rousing the red deer from the warm woodlands of the combes where they love to hide. We had the slow-hounds with us, and that, as it seems to me, is better sport than with the swift gaze-hounds I rode after ...

— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler

... full-milk, milk that has been enriched by addition of cream, or from milk that has been more or less skimmed. It varies consequently very widely in composition, so-called cream cheese containing not less than 60% of fat; Stilton upwards of 40%; Cheddar about 30%; Dutch, Parmesan and some Swiss and Danish less than 20%. The amount of water varies with the kind and age of the cheese and may be as low as 20 and as high as 60%. Under these circumstances it is impracticable ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

Words linked to "Cheddar" : village, cheese, cheddar cheese, Armerican cheddar, England, store cheese, cheddar pink, hamlet, rat cheese