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The Story of Wensleydale Cheese
Por T. C. Calvert
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- Read Books Ltd.
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- Sep 9, 2016
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- 9781473356665
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Comenzar a leerInformación sobre el libro
The Story of Wensleydale Cheese
Por T. C. Calvert
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- Editorial:
- Read Books Ltd.
- Publicado:
- Sep 9, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781473356665
- Formato:
- Libro
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ORIGINS.
THE making of Wensleydale cheese dates back to the period in which man began to adorn our Yorkshire valleys with the now familiar net-work of limestone walls. The need for the walls often arose out of the need for milk from which to make the cheeses.
When our Norman conquerors had settled in this island they invited the representatives of their religious faiths to follow them, and provided these Catholic Abbots with favourable sites upon which to build their monasteries. As the years passed the original gifts were enhanced by legacies of large tracts of land which could be farmed for the use and benefit of the monasteries. The custodians of these religious houses began in a small way but as a result of many gifts they soon increased their wealth, largely because of the accepted practice of Norman barons to give portions of their estate, either in their lifetime or as bequests, to the particular monastic order they acknowledged.
The rights of ownership of quite large estates passed in this way from the barons to the Abbots; sometimes following a victory in war, or the recovery from illness or accident, or at death. Of the many abbeys founded in and around our Yorkshire Dales, which have left an indelible mark upon the landscape and customs of the people are Fountains, Jervaulx, Kirkstall and Bolton. The three first named belonged to the Cistercian Order, already well known on the Continent as capable sheep farmers and breeders of a good type of
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