- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1/8 tsp. saffron strands
- 6 oz. Wensleydale Creamery Real Yorkshire Wensleydale with Cranberries, room
temperature
- 6 oz. Quenby Hall Blue Stilton® cheese, room temperature
- 32 large Medjool dates, room temperature (about 1 1/2 lbs.)
- 2 Tbsp. minced shelled pistachios
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries
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- In a small saucepan over low heat, warm milk and saffron until side of milk gently boils. Continue to cook for 5 minutes, stirring and pressing strands frequently to release color.
- Evenly divide the milk between two small mixing bowls. Add Wensleydale cheese to one and Blue Stilton® to the other. Using forks, mash and stir both to combine. Using 2 one-quart zipper-seal bags, spoon mixture into each bag. Snip bottom corner of bags.
- Split dates down one side. Remove and discard pits. Pipe cranberry cheese mixture into center of 16 and Blue Stilton® cheese mixture into the remaining. Garnish with pistachios and cranberries. Serve.
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