Made the same way, each with what its own sources record.
Bebè di Sorrento
Cheese from Italy, Campania
A young, mild cousin of caciocavallo from the Sorrento peninsula, matured within days instead of aged. It is named for its swaddled-baby shape.
- Rind
- Thin, soft, smooth, white to pale straw
- Size
- weight about 0.5 kgReported
- Season
- Made all year, most in demand in summer
Sources: Regione Campania; ONAF (national organisation of cheese tasters)
Burrini e burrata di bufalaburrino di bufala
Cheese from Italy, Campania
The filling is butter, not cream and shredded curd as in burrata from Apulia, and the butter is churned from whey cream, not from milk cream. It began as a way to keep butter fresh before refrigerators.
- Rind
- Skin; smooth, glossy to matt, white to straw as it ages
- Size
- 0.3 to 0.5 kgReported
Sources: Regione Campania; ONAF (national organisation of cheese tasters); ONAF
Dil peyniri
Cheese from Türkiye
A Turkish stretched-curd cheese made from cow milk.
- Milk
- cow milk
Gołka (ser gazdowski)gołka
Cheese from Poland, Podhale and the Silesian Beskids
Gołka is the cow-milk counterpart of oscypek, made from cow milk only, smoked in the home smokehouse rather than the shepherd's hut, and in the past made in autumn and winter when the sheep were dry. In a Podhale study the cow-milk cheeses were shorter, lighter and moister than oscypek, and tourists often call gołka oscypek.
- Milk
- Cow milk only
- Size
- 6–15 cm long, 0.3–0.6 kg
- Composition
- Mean 43.9% water and 3.11% salt in 20 market samples
Sources: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MRiRW); MRiRW; Surówka K.; Ceklarz K. 2023
Mshallaleh / Syrian string cheesejibneh mshallaleh
Cheese from Syria
A pasta filata cheese twisted or braided into a rope and seasoned with mahleb and nigella.
- Milk
- Traditionally cow milk; sheep and goat versions exist
- Flavour
- Mahleb, often with nigella, anise or caraway
- Keeping
- Soaked in brine for several weeks before braiding (Wikipedia); the home recipe keeps one week in the fridge
Sources: Wikipedia; Jewish Food Society
Queso crinejaclineja
Cheese from Venezuela
Venezuelan braided pasta filata, precooked like queso de mano and guayanés.
- Size
- Braid
Sources: Food & Agribusiness World
Queso de hoja (Puerto Rico)queso de hoja
Cheese from Puerto Rico
The curd is scalded in blocks rather than stretched into a rope, then flattened, salted and folded so that it keeps visible layers. The "leaf" in the name refers to these layers.
- Milk
- Fresh cow milk
- Ripening
- None described; a fresh cheese
- Size
- About 6 inches (15 cm) across and 1–2 inches thick, with slightly rounded faces
Sources: Sanders G.P. 1953; Dairy Management Inc. 2008
Queso peraqueso de mano (Boyacá)
Cheese from Colombia, Boyacá
Queso pera is a fresh, unripened pasta filata shaped like a pear. It is said to descend from caciocavallo made by the Italian Del Vecchio brothers, who arrived in Colombia in 1923.
- Milk
- Fresh cow milk
- Composition
- 46% fat in dry matterReported
Sources: CONtexto Ganadero 2022
Riavulillo
Cheese from Italy, Campania
Made like caciocavallo but tiny, with a filling of black olives and chilli that spreads heat into the paste, and smoked.
- Size
- 50–100 gReported
- Rind
- Thin, fairly soft skin, yellow-ochre from the smoke
Sources: Regione Campania; ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi); ONAF; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Scamorza di bufala
Cheese from Italy, Campania
A buffalo-milk scamorza from the mozzarella area. Its curd sours a full day under whey before stretching, and it is sold plain or briefly smoked over straw.
- Rind
- Thin elastic skin, waxy after maturing; pearly white, light ochre if smoked
- Size
- Roughly round with a small head, 0.300–0.350 kg (ONAF)
- Season
- Made all year
Sources: Regione Campania; ONAF (national organisation of cheese tasters); NHS (UK)
Scamosciata
Cheese from Italy, Campania
A little-known soft pasta filata of the Benevento area, shaped by hand into a long loaf (pagnotta) rather than a ball or pear.
- Rind
- Very thin skin, porcelain white
- Size
- Variable; elongated loaf (pagnotta)
Sources: Regione Campania; ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi); ONAF; NHS (UK)
Türkmen saçak peyniri (saçaklı peynir)tel
Cheese from Turkey, Kars and Ardahan
A thread cheese of the Turkmen villages of Kars and Ardahan; a thesis on 30 market samples found them unstandardised, low in fat and high in salt in dry matter.
Sources: YÖK National Thesis Centre (Açık Bilim); SERKA (Serhat Development Agency)