Cheeses From Denmark

Danbo


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Danbo is a semi-soft, aged cow’s milk cheese originating in Denmark, where it is a common household cheese.The cheese is typically aged between 12 and 52 weeks in rectangular blocks of 6 or 9 kg, coated with a bacteria culture. The culture is washed off at the end of the aging cycle, and the cheese [...]

Danish Blue cheese


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Danish Blue (also Danablu) is a light, blue-veined cheese. This semi-soft creamery cheese is typically drum or block shaped and has a white to yellowish, slightly moist, edible rind. Made from cow’s milk, it has a fat content of 25-30% (50-60% in dry matter) and is aged for eight to twelve weeks.Before aging, rods are [...]

Esrom


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Esrom, or Danish Port Salut cheese is a Trappist-style pale yellow semi-soft cow’s milk cheese with a pungent aroma and a full, sweet flavor. It is a porous cheese, with many small holes throughout, and is slightly elastic and buttery in texture. Commonly used as a table or melting cheese, it is also good in [...]

Saga cheese


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Saga is a light blue cheese, very similar to Brie with an edible, white mold rind. It is a cow’s milk cheese invented in Denmark by the cheese-making Tholstrup family but is now also made in the US.Blue cheesesCow’s-milk cheesesArticles lacking sources

Brunost


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Brunost (Norwegian), mesost (Swedish), mysuostur (Icelandic) or myseost (Danish) is a brown Scandinavian whey cheese. The Norwegian name brunost means ‘brown cheese’. In North America it is referred to and sold as gjetost, which is an older spelling of geitost that is no longer frequently used elsewhere.
he two most popular varieties in Norway are Gudbrandsdalsost, [...]