Why is red leicester orange?!


Question: Why is red leicester orange!?
a mean, what makes it that colour!?Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
its from annatto seeds, but they used to use colouring from carrots in the original version!.

You womnt find many cheeses where the colour comes from anything artificial as most recipes are hundreds of years old - stilton for instance gets the blue mould by a reaction caused from inserting copper wires into the cheese!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Leicester cheese, usually called Red Leicester, is an English cheese, made in a similar manner to cheddar cheese, but is crumblier; it is coloured orange by adding annatto extract during manufacture!. The fairly mild flavour goes well with most food and wine or beer, and is good for Welsh rarebit!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Its just food colouring they use, the cheese itself is basically a type of cheddar,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I personally prefer I nice bit of blue stilton, or very, very mature cheddar or Spanish Manchego!.!.!.!.

PS to previous writer ME, I used to live in Mountsorrel, hi to all in Leicester!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Food Colouring =)Www@FoodAQ@Com

i live in leicester lol yeah its food colouringWww@FoodAQ@Com

food colouringWww@FoodAQ@Com

They add food colouringWww@FoodAQ@Com





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