How to Assemble the Perfect Cheese Platter | Vintage Style

We all love an amazing cheese platter, don’t we? Living in Vermont, we get our fix of cheese every day, and our go-to place for all things cheese is always the Vermont Country Store along with our local farms like Taylor Farms in Londonderry, Vermont.

Doesn’t this just make you want to go shopping for cheese?

In a quaint store with your own cheese platter in mind?

Collecting your favorite cheeses, dips, crackers, spreads, pickles, and more.

You get it, I know you do right?… If not, check out my more recent visits to the Vermont Country Store here.

What to Serve on a Cheese Platter?

Here are a few of my absolute favorites from Vermont:

• Dorset Maple Syrup | Bourbon Barrel Aged
• Taylor Farm Mustard | The Fox Hollow Farm Gourmet Original Mustard
• Cabot Cheese | Seriously Sharp Cheddar Cheese
• Maplebrook Farm | Mozzarella Cheese

Now, let’s head back to the house to create this perfect cheese platter paired with thrifted and vintage dishwares where Ella awaits us…

We’d also love to have you join us on our Vermont Foliage Home Tour.

What is the Best Cheese Platter?

For today’s cheese platter and board | vintage style, I chose this large cutting board with a handle that will also serve as a base for this vintage blue and white ironstone platter, which was my mother’s.

I’m also going to use 4 small October blue and white antique bowls to accent it all for the dippings. I found these bowls last weekend at Vermont Vintage Market Days for about $2.80 a piece.

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What to Include on a Cheese Platter

I photographed this chalkboard while visiting The Vermont Country Store at their Weston location a few weeks ago. And it will be my guide today in creating the perfect cheese platter.

How Do You Make a Cheese Platter?

1. Arrange your selected cheese platter and cheese board as you would like it to be presented.
2. Spread out all the provisions around the cheese platter and board so you have a good visual.
3. Use these 3 easy steps, mentioned above on the chalkboard to start arranging your cheese platter.
   1. The Cheese
   2. The Vehicle
   3. The Extras

4. Make it your own!

Autumn Vermont Cheese Platter

With it being autumn here in Vermont, I’m going to add apples collected from a neighbor’s tree, topped off with some old-fashioned apple cider in thrifted colored amethyst goblets.

I’m not trying to make a charcuterie board here today friends. My focus is on a cheese platter with our favorite pairings from here in Vermont.

Accented and displayed with vintage flair.

The Cheese Platter

This blue and white vintage ironstone platter is loaded with our favorite cheeses.

• Seriously Sharp Cheddar Cabot Cheese
• Boggy Meadow Farm Baby Swiss Cheese
• Maplebrook Farm Mozzarella Cheese
• Champlain Valley Creamery Truffle Triple Soft Cheese

The uncut cheeses are topped off with white farmhouse animal cheese markers that I won in a Christmas grab many years ago, and the cheese is accompanied by an inherited sterling silver knife.

I scattered a few crackers to taste, with the focus remaining on the cheese.

The apples are always cut last as to not let the air brown them too quickly.

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Extras Complimenting the Cheese Platter

Apple slices and Pumpkin Pie Cookie Buttons from the Vermont Country Store.

Pure Soft Maple Sugar Candies are delicious following this cheese platter indulgence.

• Dorset Maple Syrup | Bourbon Aged
• Taylor Farms Honey
• Fat Toad Farm Caramel

Antique Candle Co coffee candles scents smell heavenly among the cheeses.

This was so fun and yummy friends! Thank you so much for suggesting it to me!

I sure hope this isn’t our last alfresco for the season!

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