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Article: Dairy products are the cream of farm's crop ; Thick golden-yellow cream fills the trays in the small dairy at Westons Farms, near Bampton. It will sit for up to 24 hours until it has reached the perfect consistency for clotted cream, ready to be packaged in pots and sold to the public.
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- Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
- Article date:
- April 26, 2008
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Thick golden-yellow cream fills the trays in the small dairy at
Westons Farms, near Bampton. It will sit for up to 24 hours until
it has reached the perfect consistency for clotted cream, ready to
be packaged in pots and sold to the public.
The Westons are well-known in the area for being synonymous with
sumptuously rich farmhouse clotted cream, extra thick double cream
and equally delicious milk, and farmer Neil Weston says the secret
lies with the cows.
"We have 40 Jersey cattle, and their milk gives the cream its
rich golden colour which you don't get with Friesian cow milk - it
is much creamier," he said.
Jersey cattle have been bred on the 350-acre farm at Kersdown
Barton since the ...