Sheep milk cheese
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Sheep milk cheese is a
Nutrition and production
Sheep have only two
Though sheep's milk may be drunk in fresh form,
By country
France
French sheep milk cheeses include
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Brin d'Amour
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Levejac
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Niolo
Cyprus
Cypriot sheep milk cheeses include Anari and Halloumi.
Greece
Greek sheep milk cheeses include Feta and Kefalotyri.
Italy
Italian sheep milk cheeses include
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Pecorino Sardo
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Pecorino Toscano
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Casu marzu is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae and cheese mites from the cheese flies. A variation of this cheese exists also in Corsica (France), where it is called casgiu merzu and is especially produced in some Southern Corsican villages like Sartene.
Croatia
Croatian sheep milk cheeses include Pag cheese and Ovidur.
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Pag cheese is hard, distinctively flavored sheep milk cheese originating from the Adriatic island of Pag
Poland
Polish sheep milk cheeses include oscypek and bryndza.
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Oscypek cheese.
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Artisanal sheep's-milk cheeses from the local market, made by sheepherders in Poland
Portugal
Portuguese sheep milk cheeses include
.Spain
Among the very many cheese varieties in Spain made from sheep's milk and protected by the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) there is Roncal,[18] made in the Roncal Valley; Idiazabal cheese, made in both Basque Country and Navarre regions from Latxa and Carranzana sheep's milk; Torta del Casar, made in Extremadura region from Merino sheep's milk; Manchego cheese, made in La Mancha region from Manchega sheep's milk.
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Torta del Casar served with biscuits
Hungary
Hungary produces Parenyica, a sheep's milk cheese described as lightly smoked rolled cheese usually made from ewe's milk, but also from cows milk; surrounded by an edible cheese twine.[19]
In the Northern region of Hungary another ewes milk cheese, Gomolya is made and it is allowed to ripen outside in the sun for 3 weeks while slung in cheesecloth under an open-roofed shelter. It will develop a stronger flavour when allowed to mature on wooden boards.[19] p218.
Denmark
Danish sheep milk cheeses includes Mønsk Mangcego and salad cheeses and white cheeses.
Ukraine
Ukrainian sheep milk cheeses includes bryndza and feta, salad cheeses and white cheeses.
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Aged Bessarabian sheep milk bryndza from a market in Izmail
See also
References
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- ^ Labro, Camille (2 May 2014). "La faisselle rafraîchit les idées". Le Monde. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
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Further reading
- Ehlers, Steve; Hurt, Jeanette (2008). The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cheeses of the World. ISBN 9781592577149. Retrieved 3 December 2014.. p. 123.
- Pond, Wilson G. (16 November 2004). Encyclopedia of Animal Science (Print). ISBN 9780824754969. Retrieved 3 December 2014.. p. 798.
- Park, Young W.; Haenlein, George F. W. (28 February 2008). Handbook of Milk of Non-Bovine Mammals. ISBN 9780470999721. Retrieved 3 December 2014.. p. 176.