Blue cheese mold would form. According to legend, Roquefort was discovered when a youth, eating a lunch of bread and ewes' milk cheese, abandoned his meal in a nearby cave after seeing a beautiful girl in the distance. When he returned months later, the mold ("Penicillium roqueforti") had transformed his cheese into Roquefort. Gorgonzola is one of the oldest known blue cheeses, having been created around 879 AD, though it is said that it did not actually contain blue veins until around the 11th century. Stilton is a relatively new addition becoming popular sometime in the early 1700s. Many varieties of blue
Castelo Branco cheese milk. The fat content is around 45% and the cheese is usually a close-to-white colour. Cheeses sometimes also known as Castelo Branco cheese: Castelo Branco cheese Castelo Branco (Portuguese: "Queijo de Castelo Branco") is a cheese named after the city of the same name in Portugal, the main city of the district where it is produced. Since 1996 Castelo Branco cheese has had a Protected designation of origin (PDO), being one of the three "Beira Baixa cheeses" (PDO) (Portuguese: "Queijos da Beira Baixa DOP"). The cheese is made from milk produced by either a goat or a ewe, and has