Little Derby is a

Derby Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gai ...

-style cheese made outside

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

, similar in flavour and texture to Cheddar, but without the annatto colouring used in Derby cheese. One manufacturer of the cheese, Fowlers, is based in

Earlswood, Warwickshire Earlswood is a small village in Warwickshire, England in the Tanworth-in-Arden Civil parish of the Stratford-on-Avon District. However, the northernmost part of the village lies within Tidbury Green parish in the Solihull Metropolitan Borough o ...

, having moved from Derbyshire in 1918. Their Little Derby cheese is made with pasteurised

cow's milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digest solid food. Immune factors and immune-modulati ...

, producing a semi-hard cheese with a fat content of about 48%. Annatto is not used, but the rinds of the diameter wheels are washed with red wine to give an orange colour. The cheeses are matured for seven months.Publicity Leaflet. Warwickshire, Fowlers (2008)

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{{cheese-stub English cheeses Cow's-milk cheeses

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