Made the same way, each with what its own sources record.
Byaslagбяслаг
Cheese from Mongolia
Unlike aaruul, which is dried until rock-hard, byaslag is a fresh pressed curd. Its curd is set by adding sour whey or yoghurt to heated milk rather than by rennet alone.
- Milk
- Yak or cow milk, raw or boiled
- Ripening
- Fresh, not ripened
Sources: Chuluunbat Tsend-Ayush 2022; National Center for Cultural Heritage (Mongolia) 2022; Mongolia Guide; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Caboc
Cheese from Scotland, Highlands
Caboc is made from double cream rather than milk and set by souring and pressing with no rennet, then rolled in toasted oatmeal.
- Milk
- Double cream from local cow milk, pasteurised
- Composition
- Fat 58.5 g per 100 gReported
Sources: Highland Fine Cheeses; Oxley M. 2014
Cașcaș
Cheese from Romania
Caș is the young, unripened rennet curd that several Romanian cheeses start from. It is not kept in brine like telemea, and it is not ground with salt and packed in a casing like brânză de burduf.
- Milk
- Sheep milk, sometimes cow milk
- Ripening
- Fresh; soured up to two weeks when it is to become brânză de burduf
Sources: Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity; European Commission 2026; BZI (Bună Ziua Iași); ANSES 2022
Claquebitouquiaque-bitou (Burgundian)
Cheese from France, Burgundy
Burgundy's herbed fresh goat curd, close to Lyon's cervelle de canut. 'Clacbitou' is a separate trade mark for raw goat cheeses ripened in Saône-et-Loire.
- Fat
- 45% fat, as quoted from a farm dairy guide
Sources: Wikipédia (fr)
Crowdiecrowdie
Cheese from Scotland, Highlands
Crowdie is a fresh lactic curd, soured naturally with at most a little rennet, then drained and salted, not ripened. Gruth Dhu is crowdie mixed with double cream and rolled in toasted oatmeal and black pepper.
- Milk
- Cow milk, pasteurised today
- Ripening
- Fresh; shelf life about 14 days
Sources: Slow Food in the UK; Davidson A.; Food Standards Scotland 2018
Cuajadacuajada
Cheese from Spain
Cuajada is not acidified, unlike fresh lactic cheeses such as quark, which bacteria sour. That makes it a boundary entry.
- Milk
- Milk; skim UHT milk in one Spanish study
- Ripening
- Fresh; not ripened
Sources: Arqués J.L.; Jaramillo-Bedoya E.
Demi-sel (fresh salted cheese)Demi-sel
Cheese from France
French law lets fresh fromage blanc go as low as 10–15 g of dry matter per 100 g, but the 2007 decree excludes demi-sel (and petit-suisse) from that allowance and defines them in its annex. Its other mark is the light salting that gives it its name.
- Milk
- Cow milk
- Legal status
- Named in the decree's fromage blanc article; unlike other fromages blancs it may not use the lower dry-matter minimum that French law allows for fromage blanc, because the annex defines it separately
- Fat
- About 40 % (French Wikipedia)
- Size
- About 100 g, square (French Wikipedia)
Sources: Décret n° 2007-628 du 27 avril 2007 relatif aux fromages et spécialités fromagères; Wikipédia (fr)
Queso llanero
Cheese from Venezuela, the llanos
A hard, salty grating cheese rather than a fresh one; the related queso merideño is described as similar but less salty.
- Milk
- The feature does not give the milk for queso llanero; it says most Venezuelan cheeses are now made from cow milk, and many are made from raw milk
- Character
- Hard, slightly acid and earthy, salty, good for grating
Sources: Meer
Requeixoleite trallado
Cheese from Spain, Galicia
An unsalted acid curd of whole milk, not of whey, so it is not requesón; the north drains it briefly, the south longer.
Sources: Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity; Wikipedia (es); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rygeostrygeost
Cheese from Denmark, especially Funen
A fresh curd of milk, buttermilk and rennet, smoked for only seconds over straw or wood chips and nettles, which sets it apart from unsmoked Danish fresh cheeses.
Sources: VisitNyborg; Arla Foods
Snøfrisk
Cheese from Norway
Snøfrisk is a fresh goat-milk spread made with 20% cow cream, unlike brunost, a cooked whey cheese made with cow or goat milk.
- Milk
- 80% goat milk and 20% cow cream
- Launched
- 1994, for the Lillehammer Winter Olympics
Sources: TINE; Wikipedia
Zhazhik (Armenia)
Cheese from Armenia
Made from the whey of matsun or from buttermilk rather than from fresh milk.
- Milk
- Matsun whey or buttermilk
Sources: Eurasia Travel
Formaggio Zigher
Cheese from Italy, Veneto
A lactic sour-milk cheese of the Agordino, set by lactic coagulation, and flavoured with chives and pepper; ONAF links it to the similar Zieger of South Tyrol.
- Size
- del peso di circa 150 grammiSet
- Rind
- None; a mould bloom when mature
Sources: Regione Veneto; ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention