went on the Christmas cheese run yesterday and got goat's cheese, strong cheddar, smoked cheddar, pave d'affinois (brie), the obligatory stilton and tallegio (smells like death)

£40 on cheese???!?

so to make it worthwhile, I'm looking for a wafery salty seedy cracker or similar to go with it – anything special out there?

Cars thins are yummy 🙂

Orcadian oatcakes

Chinese seaweed crackers, esp for the tallego

+1 for oatcakes lovely

I like the ones that you pull from both ends. They crack and often contain a paper hat and a piece of plastic shaped like a small comb.

I'm a bit uncultured and like the variety of a big tin of assorted crackers failing that some digestives will do 🙂

OOooo digestives with marmite and a slither of cheese over the top!! Or oatcakes with cheese and some grapes! ARGH now you've got me wanting some of this nice food …ggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Oatcakes or have it with dried dates! Tasty!!!

Krackawheat

derek, are they made by jacob's, not heard of them?

the chinese seaweed crackers sound good
not a big fan of oatcakes, bit dry, but I know others are so I'll get some of them
anyone every made crackers themselves?

Millers Damsels . Wheaty, salty, expensive. Just the ticket.

Nairns oatcakes or Millers Damsells (three seeds)
yum.

Miller damsels, oat, wheat, celery or charcoal, fudge make nice ones as well.

I've always considered the cracker as merely a vehicle for transporting cheese to mouth, and as such should impart little or no flavour of their own. A water biscuit or similar should be perfectly adequate.

😀

Woody +1

Just use a spoon

They're not wafery or seedy but I normally go with Tucs and/or the classic Jacob's Cream Cracker.

Hovis digestive biscuits,yummy.
Ian

Proper French bread is the best for the non-British ones.

Not keen on the thin, snappy ones:

fine oatcakes (plainer but with body)
hovis or digestive (sweet)

Your cheese of choice (not too smelly, for me)

Onion chutney/relish/marmalade

Port (large glass, swirl it around)

Finish with a square of quite dark chocolate

bath olivers

Bath Olivers

oatcakes for hard cheeses, wholemeal digestives for blues. serve with a chilled tawny, and none of this fruit/celery/chutney nonsense.

Plate. Cheese(s). Red wine.

No other distractions.

Cheese is the work of the devil.

ditto orkney oatcakes

Water cracker, thin smear of Vegemite, slice of cheese, slice of tomato, sprinkle of black pepper.

drooool…

I'm off to make some 🙂

Anything other than the cheese is a distraction.

Slice of apple or grapes to cleans the pallet.

The only reason to drink wine with cheese is if either are rank – cheese and wine parties were invented to hide poor examples of both.

All of the above, avoiding chutnies/ marmite/ condiments, inc. butter.
In the cupboard at the moment we have Krakawheat, Jacobs Cream Crackers, Carr's Water biscuits but Mr Popular is by far and away the Fudge's selection box. Need to buy Bath Olivers tommorrow. Love it.

AndyP WTF? Chilling a really good tawny will kill it stone dead.
ian

Premier cheese sell a great Gewürztraminer confiture and pinot noir jelly but I guess that's not on the shopping lists for you chutney hating folk 😀

messiah – Member

The only reason to drink wine with cheese is if either are rank – cheese and wine parties were invented to hide poor examples of both.

No, no, no.

Cheese = good.
Wine = good.
Both = gooder.

IMO of course.

And if it worked with whisky, I'd say the same, but cheese'n'whisky is just wrong.

Try Danish Blue on Hovis or McVities digestives, oh yeah!
Cambazola is rather nice on carrs too.

Got to be Roquefort papillon, cashel blue or Barkham blue for me

Duchies Oat Biscuits..mmm, crunchy, oaty, big..

Water cracker, thin smear of Vegemite, slice of cheese, slice of tomato, sprinkle of black pepper.

get out of the thread ❗

thanks everyone for the suggestions

AndyP WTF? Chilling a really good tawny will kill it stone dead.
ian
You'll find that an awful lot of port manufacturers would disagree with you there…but hey, what would they know?

Water biscuit, as said above, don't ruin the taste of a good cheese with a manky old cracker

Speaking of cheese, port and crackers, I believe it's time to crack open the xmas selections. It has to be a selection…..

I'm with AndyP on this. Also if you can get Scottish Oatcakes from Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfrieshire then you've got a sublime combo. They are the best I've ever had!