The Old Bath Cream Cheese

Cooper and Cooper explore the history of cream cheese diary in Bath. Nineteenth-century Bath was a well-known center for the production of cream cheese, along with Cambridge and York. The history of this 'delicate and delicious morsel' is recounted in Victorian illustrated cheese wrappers...

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Published in:Notes and queries 2010-03, Vol.57 (1), p.118-120
Main Authors: Cooper, Maxwell J. F., Cooper, Margaret E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cheese industry
Family owned businesses
History
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Summary:Cooper and Cooper explore the history of cream cheese diary in Bath. Nineteenth-century Bath was a well-known center for the production of cream cheese, along with Cambridge and York. The history of this 'delicate and delicious morsel' is recounted in Victorian illustrated cheese wrappers that have descended to people. One of 'the noted edibles that Bath is associated with in the minds of its cosmopolitan visitors', it was first prepared 'in about AD 1780' by William Vowles (buried 1809) who then occupied the Victoria Park Farm, Bath.
ISSN:0029-3970
1471-6941
DOI:10.1093/notesj/gjp239