Made the same way, each with what its own sources record.
Abbaye de Cîteaux (fromage de Cîteaux)
Cheese from France, Côte-d'Or
A Trappist farm cheese from the monks' own Montbéliarde herd; unlike most French farm cheeses it is made from thermised, not raw, milk.
- Size
- 11 cm across, 2.5 cm high, about 720 g
- Output
- More than 400 tonnes of milk a year from 240 hectares, made into 70 tonnes of cheese
Sources: Wikipédia (fr)
Queso de Pría / Ahumado de PríaQueso de Pría
Cheese from Spain, Asturias
It is a cow cheese enriched with sheep cream, and it is best known smoked over oak and beech after ripening. It is sweet and low in salt.
- Rind
- Hard, smooth, brown
- Size
- Cylinders of 500–800 g (small) or 1.5–2 kg (large)
- Fat
- 45 %
Sources: Vivir Asturias; Wikipedia (es)
Aschbacher Magerkäse (Formaggio Aschbach magro)Aschbacher Magerkäse
Cheese from Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, province of Bolzano
It is made from milk half skimmed for butter-making, as South Tyrolean dairies have long done, so it is leaner than the full-fat Algund cheeses; it is ripened at least 30 days before eating.
- Rind
- Clean, smooth, light brown, no cracks
- Size
- Ø 25 cm, height about 8 cm, about 5 kg
Sources: ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi); Ministero delle politiche agricole; ONAF
Belper KnolleBoule de Belp
Cheese from Switzerland, Bern
A modern pepper-coated garlic cheese ball whose dried form is used as a grating seasoning.
Sources: Wikipedia (de); US Food and Drug Administration 2016
Bethmale
Cheese from France, Ariège, the Couserans in the Pyrenees, named after the Bethmale valley
The Ariège tourism board calls Bethmale one of the few cow's milk cheeses native to the Ariège Pyrenees. Its name stands both for the valley and for a plain shepherds' method with few technical means.
- Milk
- Mainly cow milk; sheep, goat or mixed versions exist
Sources: Ariège Pyrénées Tourisme
Brânză de coșuleț
Cheese from Romania, Transylvania
Sweet caș is salted, kneaded by hand and packed in fir-bark bellows, then very lightly smoked.
Sources: Wikipedia
Cornish Yarg
Cheese from England, Cornwall
Wrapped in frozen wild nettle leaves (or wild garlic leaves), which draw the natural moulds of the rind.
- Milk
- cow milk, pasteurised
- Ripening
- up to 5 weeksReported
Sources: The Cheese Atlas; Food Manufacture 2010
Dilliskus
Cheese from Ireland, Co. Kerry
A semi-soft Irish washed-rind cheese marbled dark garnet by dulse seaweed in the paste, made only from summer milk.
- Rind
- Natural washed rind
- Awards
- Supreme Champion at the first Blas na hÉireann National Irish Food Awards (2008)
Sources: Ireland Guide; Azure Azure; Taste Kerry; US Food and Drug Administration 2016; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Formaggio della paglia (Lavizzara)formaggio della paglia
Cheese from Switzerland, Ticino
It is a soft alp cheese, unpressed and once ripened about a year and wrapped in rye straw so it could be carried by horse to Locarno and shipped on to Piedmont and Genoa. A tourist compared it to Gorgonzola stracchini and a 1908 valley guide ranked it with Limburger; Piedmont's tuma d'la paja is a soft cow cheese kept on straw mats.
- Size
- 4–5 kg; about 25 cm diameter, 7–8 cm high
- Season
- Made at the start of the alp season and for Christmas; found only from August to October, at Fusio
Sources: Kulinarisches Erbe der Schweiz / Patrimoine culinaire suisse; Rennis P. 2024; ANSES 2022
Fourme de Rochefort-MontagneFourme de Rochefort
Cheese from France, Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme
Like Cantal and Salers it is made from a milled and salted tome, but it is a much smaller cylinder of about 7 kg with no protected name, and it ripens only about 45–60 days.
- Size
- Cylinder about 7 kg, 29 cm diameter, 10 cm high
- Output
- About 100 tonnes a year through the La Fourmontoise cooperative (2013); about 120 tonnes a year in Wikipedia
Sources: Wikipédia (fr); L'Auvergne Agricole 2018; Bignon E. 2013; ANSES 2022
Gaztazarra (gazta zaharra)
Cheese from Spain, Basque Country and northern Navarre
Gaztazarra is not made from milk but from finished cheese, which ferments a second time in a pot. It is the Basque counterpart of the Catalan tupí, and like it keeps some old ferment as a mother for the next batch.
- Milk
- old S cheese (Latxa), optionally with Latxa milk, water or pacharán/aguardiente
- Ripening
- in a small clay pot, ≥2 moReported
- Rind
- none; soft, creamy spread
- Size
- pots of 100–250 g
Sources: Wikipedia (es)
Källarlagrad getost (cellar-ripened goat cheese)
Cheese from Sweden, Jämtland
It is ripened in an old earth cellar, so moulds of several colours, red among them, grow on the rind.
- Milk
- goat milk, raw (unpasteurised)
- Ripening
- in an earth cellar built in the mid-19th century; moulds of several colours, notably red, grow on the rind
- Ripening time
- Sigrid Kuusiniemi of the farm says it takes three to six months
- Culture
- Sigrid Kuusiniemi says she makes her own culture from milk warm from the goat and filmjölk (soured milk)
Sources: Nordstjernan; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mastelo (Chios)Μαστέλο
Cheese from Greece, North Aegean
Mastelo is a grilling cheese of Chios, used like halloumi. Its name is the Venetian word for a milk bucket.
- Milk
- Cow milk; goat-milk versions also exist
- Type
- Soft, white, chewy grilling cheese
- Behaviour in storage
- In a challenge test at 7 °C, Listeria monocytogenes survived on Mastelo but did not grow, which the authors put down to competing microbes and/or low pH or water activity
Sources: Kapetanakou A.E.; Facaros & Pauls Greek food decoder
Murol (Grand Murols)
Cheese from France, Auvergne
Murol is a Saint-Nectaire-type cheese with a 3 cm hole punched through the centre, so it is a ring. The plug becomes a second product, Murolait.
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- about 1 month, or 5–6 weeksReported
- Size
- about 450 g; 12 cm across, 3.5–4 cm high, 3 cm central hole
Sources: Wikipédia (fr)
Pas de Rouge
Cheese from Belgium
Belgian organic raw-milk semi-hard cheese with a red B. linens smear; creamy and mild; 53.9 % fat in dry matter.
- Rind
- Natural red smear rind (not edible)
- Size
- Flat wheel, about 2–2.3 kg
Sources: Kaasimport Jan Dupont nv; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Passendale
Cheese from Belgium, West Flanders
Passendale is shaped by hand like a round farmhouse loaf and made in linen cloths, which give it its round shape.
- Milk
- Pasteurised cow milk from local farms
- Shape
- Round, like a farmhouse loaf
Sources: Toerisme Zonnebeke; Wikipedia
Pustertaler Bergkäse (Formaggio di montagna della Val Pusteria)
Cheese from Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano
A Val Pusteria mountain cheese made in dairies from pasteurised milk, semi-cooked at 40 °C; the sheet likens it to Fontal and dates local dairy production to just after the Second World War.
- Rind
- Smooth, soft, elastic; straw, light brown or brown, with white moulds
- Size
- Ø 40 cm, height 10–11 cm, 10–14 kg
- Fat
- About 45 % fat in dry matter (full-fat) or about 35 % (semi-fat)
Sources: ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi)
Queijo de Cabra das Beiras
Cheese from Portugal, Beiras
Small goat cheeses where the dried 'seco' is simply salted leftover fresh cheese.
Queijo de Cabra do AlgarveQueijo de cabra algarvio
Cheese from Portugal, Algarve
Made from the milk of the Algarvia goat, a regional breed, and made with a little cardo; in the record cheese one quarter was also flavoured with oregano.
- Normal fresh cheese
- Normal weight of 160/180 gramsReported
Sources: Município de Castro Marim 2016; Mendonça C. 2016
Queijo de Cabra do Guadiana
Cheese from Portugal, Baixo Alentejo along the lower Guadiana
The fresh cheese is made from boiled milk set with cardoon and eaten fresh; the dried seco is preserved under olive oil or salt rather than ripened in a cave.
Sources: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Queso blanquet (queso de cabra de Alicante)
Cheese from Spain, Valencian Community
Sweetish low-salt goat disc with esparto-weave sides; sometimes kept in brine.
- Rind
- Barely any
- Size
- About 0.5 kg; about 15 cm disc
Sources: Wikipedia (es)
Queso chaqueño
Cheese from Bolivia, Chaco
Salt-in-curd pressed farm cheese of the Bolivian Chaco cattle country; described only by one producer.
Sources: Engormix forum 'Cómo fabricar quesos' (producer from Camiri)
Queso de Burgos
Cheese from Spain, Castile and León
An unpressed, unripened fresh rennet cheese of mixed cow and sheep milk, graded by its sheep-milk share. Ultrafiltration, plant coagulants and curd pressing are all excluded.
- Rind
- None; smooth, moist white surfaces with mould shapes or cloth marks
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Fresh cheese
- Spanish law defines queso fresco as cheese ready to eat as soon as it is made
Sources: Ministerio de Agricultura; Real Decreto 1113/2006 of 29 September; AgroNews Castilla y León; Otero A.
Queso de cassoleta (saladito valenciano)formatge de cassoleta
Cheese from Spain, Valencian Community
Queso de cassoleta is named after its little casserole-shaped mould. It may use goat, cow or sheep milk, alone or mixed.
- Shape
- Small, round, volcano shape from the cassoleta mould
- Size
- About 200–500 g
- Rind
- None; white, tender, moist paste
Sources: Wikipedia (es)
Queso de El Carballo (queso de Taramundi)queso de Taramundi
Cheese from Spain, Asturias
Plain or studded with hazelnuts or walnuts; Wikipedia calls it the only cheese made in Spain with nuts in the paste, and Turismo Asturias the only one in Asturias.
- Size
- Cylinders of 500 g or 1 kg (Turismo Asturias); 600 g or 1 kg (Wikipedia)
- Rind
- Thin, cream-coloured
Sources: Vivir Asturias; Wikipedia (es)
Queso de freírqueso de freír
Cheese from Dominican Republic
Firm, salty fresh white cheese with a very high melting point: it holds its shape when fried, so it is sliced and fried (queso frito) for breakfast. Halloumi is the closest substitute.
- Milk
- cow milk
- Moulding and salting
- pressed, salted firm white curd
- Ripening
- none; fresh
Sources: Dominican Cooking
Queso de hoja (Veracruz)
Cheese from Mexico, Veracruz
Fresh pressed cow cheese wrapped in wetland-plant leaves that slow moisture loss in the hot coast climate and add herbal notes; traditional recipe is only milk, salt and rennet.
Sources: DairyNews.today
Queso de servilletaformatge de tovalló
Cheese from Spain, Valencian Community
Shaped by a tied napkin instead of a mould, giving a globe with a top knot.
- Rind
- White (fresh) to light yellow (cured); cloth weave visible
- Size
- ≤2 kg; squarish globe
Sources: Wikipedia (es)
Queso de Vidiago
Cheese from Spain, Asturias
Soft rectangular farmhouse cow cheese of one family (Collera).
- Rind
- Thin, soft, yellow
- Size
- About 1 kg; rectangular
Sources: Wikipedia (es)
Queso de Villalónqueso de Villalón
Cheese from Spain, Castile and León
Queso de Villalón is eaten within a day or two and is similar to Queso de Burgos. A 2017 study notes it is also called Pata mulo, the name of the ripened cheese made from Villalón cheeses that went unsold.
- Rind
- None; soft, compact paste
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Keeping
- Sold the day it is made; keeps at most two days
Sources: Rodríguez L.A.; Wikipedia (es)
Queso herreño
Cheese from Spain, Canary Islands
Mixed raw-milk island cheese smoked over cactus pads and fig wood; fresh one fills the quesadilla herreña.
- Rind
- Shows burnished lines from the smoking grill
Sources: Wikipedia (es); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Queso palmizuliaQueso palmita (parent type)
Cheese from Venezuela, Zulia
Zulia's fresh white cheese with gas holes; Wikipedia calls palmizulia a softer type of palmita.
- Eyes
- Holes made by fermenting bacteria are the defining trait of palmita-type cheese (Castro et al. 2012)
- Eyes in a palmita-type trial
- Cheeses showed gas fermentation 24 hours after making, with eyes 0.5–1 cm high and 1–3 cm long (Vargas et al. 2000). These are palmita-type values, not palmizulia.
- Composition (palmita)
- pH 5.76 (palmita, Maracaibo retail samples)Measured
Sources: Castro G.; Vargas U.; Wikipedia
Räucherkäse (Formaggio affumicato)Räucherkäse
Cheese from Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige
Räucherkäse is a fresh cheese that is cold-smoked, which the ONAF sheet calls a clash between the old habit of smoking for keeping and a young, sour paste. The smoke comes from conifer sawdust.
- Rind
- Edible, thin, soft and elastic, light brown and smoked
- Size
- Cylinder 11.5 cm across and 8 cm high, 0.6–2.0 kg (ONAF); one producer's 2 kg wheel is 18.5 cm across
- Composition (one producer)
- 1,2 g salt per 100 gReported
Sources: ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi); ONAF; Sennerei Drei Zinnen / Latteria Tre Cime (Toblach)
Robiola ticinese (formaggino)formagitt
Cheese from Switzerland, Ticino
The Ticino robiola is a small fresh rennet cheese that differs from Italian robiola in taste, texture and shape. Its sweet taste comes from a milk that is not acidified, unlike the büscion of the same canton. In 1913 the milk was only warmed to 28 °C and no culture was added.
- Size
- 70–100 g; about 6–7 cm diameter, 3–4 cm high
Sources: Kulinarisches Erbe der Schweiz / Patrimoine culinaire suisse
Sextner Almkäse (Formaggio di montagna di Sesto)Sextner Almkäse
Cheese from Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, province of Bolzano
It is a large, pressed, semi-cooked mountain cheese whose rind is scraped and brushed every day to clear a fine mould down, which leaves the rind grey-brown and wrinkled.
- Milk
- Whole cow milk, pasteurised, from mountain farms above 1,300 m around Sexten
- Ripening
- About 3 months; can go on to 7–8 months
- Rind
- Wrinkled, fairly hard, grey-brown, with traces of the mould scraped off each day
- Size
- About 7.0 kgReported
- Composition
- 50 % fat in dry matterReported
Sources: ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi); Elenco nazionale dei prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali (art. 12
Stracchino di capra
Cheese from Italy, Lazio
A goat-milk version of the soft cow stracchino of northern Italy, which Lazio goat keepers made as an alternative to 'primo sale'; it is eaten fresh after a single coarse cut and a warm stewing.
- Size
- pezzature di 250 g fino a 2 kgReported
- Rind
- None, or thin, sometimes bloomy, porcelain-white
- Season
- March to September or October
Sources: Regione Lazio / ARSIAL; ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi); ONAF; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Tilsiter (Swiss)
Cheese from Eastern and central Switzerland
Sold under red, green and yellow labels that tell raw, partly thermised milk from pasteurised milk and creamed milk, each with its own ripening time.
- Green label (Past-Tilsiter)
- Ripening period 28 daysReported
- Red label (surchoix)
- Reifezeit mindestens 4 MonateReported
- Yellow label (Rahm-Tilsiter)
- Reifezeit 1 – 2 MonateReported
Sources: Tilsiter Switzerland; Tilsiter Switzerland; Tilsiter Switzerland; Fuchsmann P.; US Food and Drug Administration 2016; ANSES 2022
Toblacher Stangenkäse (Formaggio originale di Dobbiaco)Toblacher Stangenkäse
Cheese from Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, province of Bolzano
It was designed as a bar, not a wheel, so it travels and slices easily. The curd is moulded without pressing and ripened only about 6 weeks, which made it a way to use surplus milk.
- Rind
- Thin, rough, fairly soft, straw-ochre, with traces of greenish mould
- Size
- Square bar 10 × 10 × 30 cm, about 5 kg
- Fat
- 45 % fat in dry matter
Sources: ONAF (national organisation of cheese tasters); Ministero delle politiche agricole; ONAF
Trappe ÉchourgnacTrappe d'Échourgnac
Cheese from France, Dordogne
A Trappist abbey cheese ripened at the abbey, with a walnut-ripened version beside it. The monks made it from raw milk from 1868, but since 1999 the young cheeses are bought from a dairy and only ripened at the abbey.
- Fat
- 50 % fat (Wikipedia)
- Size
- Plain cheese 19 cm across, 5 cm thick, 1.8 kg
Sources: Wikipédia (fr); Pudlowski G.