The History of Cheese in the Middle Ages

In England, many manners stayed intact until the end of the Middle Ages. They continued to follow and refine many of the more hard cheese trends that the Romans had been using. This is also about the time that the English dairying started to move to cows from sheep because cows milk separates more easily into cream to make butter out of. A series of illnesses and really wet seasons, which are bad for sheep, also brought down the sheep population making the use of cow milk a little bit more of a necessity.