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Edam (Dutch: Edammer [eːˈdɑmər] ⓘ) is a semi-hard cheese that originated in the Netherlands, and is named after the town of Edam in the province of North Holland. [2] Edam is traditionally sold in flat-ended spheres with a pale yellow interior and a coat, or rind, of red paraffin wax. Edam ages and travels well and hardens, instead of ...
Edam – a red-waxed semi-hard cows' milk cheese named after the town of Edam. Graskaas – "grass cheese", a seasonal cows' milk cheese made from the first milkings after the cows are let into the pastures in spring. Gouda – a semi-hard cows' milk cheese traditionally traded in Gouda, now often used as a worldwide generic term for Dutch ...
A semi-hard cheese made from cow's milk. The aged cheese has a mild, sweet, nutty flavor and small round holes. It is aged for three or four months, but often up to 12 or even 24 months. Hushållsost: A semi-hard cows'-milk cheese with small granular holes and aged around 60 days on average. The taste is described as mild yet somewhat sour ...
Leyden, from Dutch: Leidse kaas, is a semi-hard, cumin and caraway seed flavoured cheese made in the Netherlands from cow's milk. [1] It is made both in factories and on farms, historically in the Leiden area. Leidse kaas is the most common type of komijnekaas—cheese that includes cumin as an ingredient—in the Netherlands.
Limburger (in southern Dutch contexts Rommedoe, and in Belgium Herve cheese) is a cheese that originated in the Herve area of the historical Duchy of Limburg, which had its capital in Limbourg-sur-Vesdre, now in the French-speaking Belgian province of Liège.
It normally weighs about 2 kg (approximately 4.5 pounds) and is made from pasteurized cow's milk. Its name comes from the French word mi-mou (feminine mi-molle), meaning "semi-soft", which refers to the oily texture of this otherwise hard cheese. [4] The bright orange color of the cheese comes from the natural seasoning annatto. [5]
The vast majority of Dutch cheeses are semi-hard or hard cheeses. Famous Dutch cheeses include Gouda and Edam. A typically Dutch way of making cheese is to blend in herbs or spices during the first stages of the production process. Famous examples of this are cheeses with cloves (usually the Friesian Clove), cumin (most famously Leyden cheese ...
Maaslander is a brand name for a Gouda, semihard cheese from the family Westland aka Westland Cheese Specialties BV, located at Huizen, the Netherlands. Maaslander is one of the first Dutch cheese brands, and it is a protected designation of origin. Including the green and yellow stripes, and also the name lander.