What the sources record about each of these so far.
FelciataItaly, Calabria
Unsalted creamy curd layered with ferns that perfume it; made May–August, hard to find.
- Rind
- None; porcelain-white, creamy, moist
- Size
- 0.2–0.4 kg; takes the container's shape
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd30–45 min · 34 °C
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
FontalN Italy
industrial Fontina style
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- ~2 mo
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Formadi frant / Formaggio salatoFriuli
brine-preserved Montasio-type
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- months in brine
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Formaggi di stazzoItaly, Abruzzo
Generic name for cheeses made at the summer mountain sheep folds of the transhumance, with the oldest techniques still in use.
- Rind
- None or thin natural; basket marks
- Size
- Variable; cylinder
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripenat least 30 days
Formaggio della paglia (Lavizzara)Switzerland, Ticino
Also called formaggio della paglia, formaggio alto.
Formaggio della paglia is a soft, strong-smelling cow cheese from the alps of Fusio in the upper Valle Maggia, once wrapped in rye straw and shipped across northern Italy. The milk is warmed only gently, set with rennet in about 30 minutes, broken into large grains and put into hoops without pressing. One producer still makes it, ripening it about two months in a cool cellar.
- Size
- 4–5 kg; about 25 cm diameter, 7–8 cm high
- Season
- Made at the start of the alp season and for Christmas; sold mainly August to October at Fusio
- Warm the milk gently
- Set with rennet30 min
- Break into large grains
- Fill hoops without pressing
- Salt
- Ripen in a cool cellar2 months
Safety: No safety data or study of this cheese was found.
Formaggio di capraItaly, Lazio
Generic Lazio goat cheese made in the Marzolina area in warmer months; rind may be rubbed with an oil-vinegar-herb sauce.
- Rind
- Smooth to rough with basket marks; ivory to light straw
- Size
- 0.2–1.5 kg; cylinder
- Prepare the milk0.2–0.5 min · 68–72 °C
- Set the curd
- Cook the curd
- Ripen
Formaggio StraconItaly, Veneto, province of Verona
Also called Stracon.
Stracon is a semi-cooked, semi-hard summer cheese from the alpine pastures of the Verona mountains. Raw whole milk from a single milking is set with calf rennet at 37 °C, the curd is broken and semi-cooked at 45–48 °C, and the wheels ripen 50–60 days in cool, very humid rooms.
- Rind
- Clean, dry, slightly thick, yellow
- Size
- About 6.0 kg; diameter 20–25 cm, height 7–9 cm; faces irregular
- Season
- Made June to September in the high Lessinia
- Warm the raw milk
- Set with calf rennet37 °C
- Break the curd
- Semi-cook the curd45–48 °C
- Hoop and rest the wheels
- Salt the wheels
- Ripen50 days – 2 months
Safety: The cheese is made from raw milk and ripened only 50–60 days, so keep it cool.
Formaggio ValmorelItaly, Veneto
Cooperative raw-milk cheese sold at three ages; taste said to vary day to day with feed, season and weather.
- Rind
- Clean; white to deep straw yellow, soft to hard by age
- Size
- 3–4 kg; size otherwise variable
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Cook the curd40 °C
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Fourme de Rochefort-MontagneFrance, Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme
Also called Fourme de Rochefort, Fourme fermière de Rochefort.
Fourme de Rochefort is a farm cheese of raw whole cow milk from the Puy-de-Dôme, made from a milled and salted tome like other Auvergne pressed cheeses. The milk is renneted right after milking, the pressed curd (tome) is milled, salted, moulded and pressed for about a day, and the cylinders ripen for about 45–60 days. Around ten farms make it, and a cooperative at Perpezat ripens and sells much of it.
- 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
- Rennet the milk after milking
- Mill the tome
- Salt the milled curd
- Mould and press24 h
- Ripen in the cellar45 days – 2 months
Safety: The cheese is made from raw milk. No safety study of this cheese was found.
FrachetItaly, Piemonte
Spiced cheese-and-ricotta ball, once a way to use unsellable or faulty cheeses; paste dotted dark with ground spices.
- Rind
- Almost none, or very thin wrinkled orange bloomy skin
- Size
- 100–300 g; ball ø 9–11 cm
- Prepare the milk
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Frant (Friuli)Carnia
mixture of crumbled cheeses re-salted and pressed with milk/cream
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- weeks
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Gaztazarra (gazta zaharra)Spain, Basque Country and northern Navarre
Gaztazarra (gazta zaharra, old cheese) is a Basque and northern Navarrese spread made by leaving old Latxa sheep cheese to ferment in a small clay pot for two months or more, sometimes with milk, water or liquor such as pacharán. Some older gaztazarra is kept as the mother for the next pot. It is strong and peppery.
- Milk
- old S cheese (Latxa), optionally with Latxa milk, water or pacharán/aguardiente
- Ripening
- in a small clay pot, ≥2 mo
- Rind
- none; soft, creamy spread
- Size
- pots of 100–250 g
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Giuncatella abruzzeseItaly, Abruzzo
Transhumance fresh ewe curd, very creamy and moist; fig-latex coagulation survives locally.
- Rind
- None; white; basket marks
- Size
- 0.5–0.8 kg; Ø 13–18 cm, height 4–8 cm; very moist, slumps into a flat 'focaccia'
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd30 min – 1 h · 36–37 °C
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
Golot (Kolot) peyniriTurkey, eastern Black Sea
Also called kolot, koloti, kuymak peyniri.
Low-fat, low-salt cow cheese that melts into long strings; the cheese of kuymak/muhlama. Fat ranges widely (about 1–20 %); Çayeli koloti 5–12 %.
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
GomolyaHungary
Small farmhouse cloth-drained curd loaf, fresh or lightly aged; cow, sheep or mixed.
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Ripen
Hokkaido raclette / Tokachi cheesesTokachi
Tokachi Raclette collective (Fortune)
- Milk
- cow milk
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Ibores PDOExtremadura
paprika-rubbed rind
- Milk
- goat milk, raw
- Ripening
- ≥60 d
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Källarlagrad getost (cellar-ripened goat cheese)Sweden, Jämtland
Källarlagrad getost is a raw goat-milk cheese from the Stengärde goat farm in Jämtland, made to a grandmother's recipe and ripened in an earth cellar built in the mid-19th century. The cellar's damp lets white and red moulds 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
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Krasotyri of Kos (tyri tis posias)Greece, Dodecanese
Also called κρασοτύρι Κω, τυρί της ποσιάς.
White island cheese finished in wine lees; a relative of Sifnos 'manoura'.
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Livanjski sirLivno, Bosnia
- Milk
- sheep/cow milk
- Ripening
- ≥60 d
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Mahón-Menorca PDOMenorca
square cushion via cloth 'fogasser'; rind rubbed with butter/oil/paprika
- Milk
- cow milk, (+≤5% S)
- Ripening
- tierno 21 d to añejo >5 mo
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Marzolino di TeanoItaly, Campania
Also called marzellina.
Soft March-made sister of casoperuto, thistle-coagulated and herb-finished, but not jar-fermented.
- Rind
- Treated, clean, aromatised
- Size
- About 150 g; small oblong square-based prism
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Mastelo (Chios)Greece, North Aegean
Also called Μαστέλο, Mastelo cheese, Mastelo®.
Mastelo is a soft, white, chewy cheese from Chios, made from cow or goat milk. It is sold for grilling, like halloumi. It is a trademarked dairy product, and its make has not been published.
- 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
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Safety: In a laboratory test at 7 °C, Listeria monocytogenes did not grow on Mastelo but was not always eliminated, so it should be kept cold.
Mollana della Val BorberaItaly, Piemonte
Soft, yielding ('molle') high-moisture fresh cow cheese with low acidity (pH 6.0–6.5).
- Rind
- None when fresh; after about two weeks a light white-to-straw rind covered in white mould
- Size
- 0.7–1.2 kg; low, wide cylinder
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Ripenat least 14 days
Monte Veronese PDOLessinia
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- 25 d – >6 mo
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
MortrettItaly, Piemonte
Also called Murtret, Murtrett.
Spiced, often smoked, pressed paste of toma pieces with chilli and cumin, born to save unsellable cheese.
- Rind
- None when fresh; clean or slightly mouldy, yellow-pink to brown after smoking
- Size
- Small rounded 0.25–0.5 kg, or flattened up to 2 kg
- Prepare the milk
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Mostviertler SchofkasAustria, Lower Austria
Fresh sheep-cheese roll sold floating in its whey; served with chives, pumpkin-seed oil or pear vinegar.
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
Murol (Grand Murols)France, Auvergne
Murol, or Grand Murols, is an uncooked pressed cow-milk cheese from the Puy-de-Dôme, created by Jacques Bérioux in the 1920s and 1930s and made much like Saint-Nectaire. A hole is punched out of the middle of each 450 g wheel, and the plug is sold on its own, coated in red wax, as Murolait. It ripens for about a month.
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- about 1 mo (5–6 wk)
- Rind
- washed-rind type of Saint-Nectaire
- Size
- about 450 g; 12 cm across, 3.5–4 cm high, 3 cm central hole
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
MurtaratItaly, Piemonte
Strong, piquant cheese flavoured inside with e.g. garlic or walnuts; name means 'firecracker'.
- Rind
- Slightly rough, straw to light brown/grey; sometimes coated in the flavourings
- Size
- 0.4–0.7 kg; low irregular cylinder with faces about 20 cm, side 3–4 cm (also block or ring shape)
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Ripen2–7 months
PadraccioItaly, Basilicata
Large, perishable cacioricotta-type goat curd with acidic taste and light goaty notes; made June–September, sold only locally.
- Rind
- None; white, smooth
- Size
- 0.3–2.5 kg; often slumped
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd30 min · 85–90 °C
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
Pas de RougeBelgium
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
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
PassendaleBelgium, West Flanders
Also called Passendale, Passchendaele cheese, Passendale Classic, Groot Hof.
Pasteurised cow milk from local farms is made into a round, loaf-shaped cheese that is shaped by hand and ripened slowly in linen cloths in the dairy's cellar. It has a brown or golden rind with white spots and a creamy, mild, slightly sweet paste with small holes.
- Milk
- Pasteurised cow milk from local farms
- Shape
- Round, like a farmhouse loaf
- Take local cow milk
- Shape by hand
- Ripen slowly in the cellar
Safety: No safety source specific to Passendale was found. It is made from pasteurised milk.
Primo sale di latte ovinoItaly, Lazio
Large fresh Sarda-ewe primo sale from Tuscia, usually eaten with olive oil and black pepper.
- Rind
- None, or a very thin soft white rind
- Size
- About 2 kg; cylinder with basket marks
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen24 h – 7 days
Pustertaler Bergkäse (Formaggio di montagna della Val Pusteria)Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano
Classic Pustertal alpine-style cheese with sparse, large, irregular eyes and an elastic, unctuous paste.
- Rind
- Smooth, soft, elastic; straw, light brown or brown, white moulds
- Size
- Ø 40 cm, height 10–11 cm, 10–14 kg
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cook the curd
- Ripen
Queijo colonialS Brazil
Italian/German immigrant farm cheese
- Milk
- cow milk
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Queijo de Cabra das BeirasPortugal, Beiras
Small goat cheeses where the dried 'seco' is simply salted leftover fresh cheese.
- Size
- Fresco <150 g; seco about 100 g; curado ≤12 cm, 4 cm high, ≤1 kg
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd28–31 °C
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Queijo de Cabra do GuadianaPortugal, Baixo Alentejo along the lower Guadiana
Goat milk is filtered, boiled, cooled to about 38–40 °C and set with cardoon, with some salt added to the milk. The curd drains in porous cloths and is pressed into small hoops. Most is eaten fresh within three days; the seco gets a little more salt, dries about 30 days on cane racks and is kept in olive oil or under salt in clay pots. The boiled milk means the fresh cheese is set by cardoon enzymes rather than by fermentation.
- Size
- Fresco 150–250 g, about 8 cm across, 3–5 cm high; seco 90–150 g, 5–6 cm across, 2–3 cm high
- Use
- Fresh cheese is eaten within 72 h of making; about three quarters of output is fresh
- Filter and boil the milk
- Cool and add cardoon38–40 °C
- Drain in porous cloths
- Fill the hoops and salt the outside
- Dry the seco on cane racks30 days
- Keep under olive oil or salt
Safety: The milk is boiled before making. The fresh cheese is eaten within 72 hours.
Queijo Minas Artesanal da CanastraBrazil, Minas Gerais
The best-known Minas raw-milk cheese; few small eyes, buttery semi-hard paste, mild, lightly acid and piquant.
- Rind
- Thin, smooth, yellow, darker at edges; white or green mould with age
- Size
- Cylinder 15–17 cm diam., 4–6 cm high; 1.0–1.2 kg
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripenat least 22 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal de AraxáBrazil, Minas Gerais
Drier, sharper Minas cheese with firm but buttery paste and cream-white colour; shortest legal ripening of the Minas regions.
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Ripenat least 14 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal do Campo das VertentesBrazil, Minas Gerais
Minas raw-milk cheese of the Campo das Vertentes highlands; sensory and microbiological profile studied by UFJF (2014).
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Ripenat least 22 days
Queijo Minas Artesanal do SerroBrazil, Minas Gerais
Smaller, more acid Minas cheese of the Espinhaço range; total solids 46–52 %, fat in solids ≥50 %; colour shifts from cream to golden after ~13 d.
- Rind
- Thin, no cracks; thick and dry by day 13
- Size
- Cylinder 13–15 cm diam., 4–6 cm high; 700–1,000 g
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripenat least 7 days
Queijo serranoRS/SC campos de cima da serra
- Milk
- cow milk, raw
- Ripening
- ≥60 d
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Queso blanquet (queso de cabra de Alicante)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
- Prepare the milk
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Queso chaqueñoBolivia, Chaco
Salt-in-curd pressed farm cheese of the Bolivian Chaco cattle country; documented only by producer descriptions.
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt24 h
Queso cremoso / Por salut argentinoArgentina
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- ~3 wk
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Queso de AcehúcheSpain, Extremadura
Moist raw-goat-milk cheese with a slightly 'putrid' smeared rind and paprika or oil coatings; hand-wetted 'sobao' rind finish.
- Rind
- Waxy yellow to dark ochre; natural, paprika-coated (pimentonada) or rubbed with oil
- Size
- 200–1,200 g; cylinder, diameter ≥7 cm, height ≤50% of diameter
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripenat least 40 days
Queso de bola de OcosingoChiapas
crumbly core in stretched-curd shell
- Milk
- cow milk
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Queso de BurgosSpain, Castile and León
Unpressed, unripened fresh rennet cheese, Spain's best-known 'queso fresco'; the sheep-milk share sets the grade name.
- Rind
- None; smooth white surfaces with cloth or mould marks
- Size
- Cylinder
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
Queso de El Carballo (queso de Taramundi)Spain, Asturias
Also called queso de Taramundi, El Carballo, Taramundi cheese with walnuts and hazelnuts.
A small pressed cheese from Taramundi in western Asturias, made plain from cow and goat milk or from cow milk studded with hazelnuts or walnuts. Turismo Asturias describes milk set with rennet at about 30 °C, a rice-sized cut, stirring while the curd warms, two hours of pressing, a short brine and at least two months of ripening at 10–12 °C.
- Size
- Cylinders of 500 g or 1 kg (Turismo Asturias); 600 g or 1 kg (Wikipedia)
- Rind
- Thin, cream-coloured
- Warm the milk and add rennet30–31 °C
- Cut and stir while warming20 min · 45 °C
- Mould and press2 h
- Brine5–10 h
- Dry5–6 days · 10 °C
- Ripenat least 2 months · 10–12 °C
Queso de freírDominican Republic
Also called queso de freír, queso frito (when cooked), queso blanco (Dominican), Dominican frying cheese.
Queso de freír is a firm, salty white Dominican cheese with a very high melting point, so slices hold their shape when fried. Fried, it is queso frito, part of the Tres Golpes breakfast. No source found describes how it is made or whether a fermentation step is involved.
- Milk
- cow milk
- Moulding and salting
- pressed, salted firm white curd
- Ripening
- none; fresh
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Queso de hoja (Veracruz)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.
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
Queso de Murcia al Vino PDOMurcia
rind bathed in red wine
- Milk
- goat milk, (Murciana)
- Ripening
- ≥45 d
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Queso de poro de BalancánTabasco
porous; paraffin coat
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- ~1 mo
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Queso de Pría / Ahumado de PríaSpain, Asturias
Also called Queso de Pría, Ahumado de Pría.
Queso de Pría is a semi-soft pressed cheese of pasteurised cow milk with sheep cream added. The milk is set with natural rennet at 30 °C, the curd is cut, moulded, pressed 24 hours and brined, then ripened one to two months. The best-known form, Ahumado de Pría, is then smoked over oak and beech.
- Rind
- Hard, smooth, brown
- Size
- Cylinders of 500–800 g (small) or 1.5–2 kg (large)
- Fat
- 45 %
- Add sheep cream to the milk
- Set with natural rennet30 min · 30 °C
- Cut and reheat the curd35 °C
- Mould and press24 h
- Brine and air-dry
- Ripen30 days – 2 months
- Smoke over oak and beech
Safety: The milk is pasteurised before cheesemaking.
Queso de servilletaSpain, Valencian Community
Also called formatge de tovalló.
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
- Prepare the milk
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Queso de VidiagoSpain, Asturias
Soft rectangular farmhouse cow cheese of one family (Collera).
- Rind
- Thin, soft, yellow
- Size
- About 1 kg; rectangular
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
Queso de VillalónSpain, Castile and León
Also called queso de Villalón, Villalón cheese, queso fresco de Villalón.
A very fresh sheep-milk cheese from Villalón de Campos, sometimes mixed with cow milk or made from cow milk alone. The milk is renneted as soon as the ewes are milked, and the soft, rindless cylinders are sold the same day and keep no more than two days. Cheeses left unsold were traditionally ripened into Pata de mulo, a name also used for Villalón cheese itself.
- Rind
- None; soft, compact paste
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Keeping
- Sold the day it is made; keeps at most two days
- Rennet the milk straight after milking
- Drain and mould
- Sell the same dayup to 2 days
Queso herreñoSpain, 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
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Queso PaipaBoyacá, Colombia
Colombia's first DO cheese
- Milk
- cow milk, raw
- Ripening
- ≥21 d
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Queso palmizuliaVenezuela, Zulia
Also called queso palmita (parent type).
Zulia's fresh white cheese with gas holes ('ojos') from bacterial and yeast fermentation; palmizulia is a softer variant of palmita.
- Prepare the milk
- Mould and salt
- Ripen24 h – 2 days
Queso TurrialbaCosta Rica, Cartago
Also called queso blanco tipo Turrialba.
Pressed fresh white cheese with a mild, slightly salty taste, no holes, slices without crumbling; holds a Costa Rican DO; made in Santa Cruz for over 160 years.
- Rind
- None
- Size
- Square block
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and saltup to 24 h
Raclette de Savoie PGISavoie
washed rind; melting cheese
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- ≥6 wk
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Ras (Rumi)Egypt
hard, peppercorns sometimes; Kefalotyri-derived
- Milk
- cow/buffalo milk, (or mixed)
- Ripening
- ≥3 mo
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Raschera PDOCuneo
square or round; d'alpeggio
- Milk
- cow milk, (+S/G)
- Ripening
- ≥30 d
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Raviggiolo di latte vaccino del MugelloItaly, Toscana
Also called Raviggiolo del Mugello.
Very wet, barely set cow curd eaten within a day, from the Tuscan-Romagna Apennines.
- Rind
- None; glossy, wet, milk-white
- Size
- ~1 kg; Ø 15–25 cm, side 2–4 cm; collapsed
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen4 °C
Raviggiolo di pecora seneseItaly, Toscana
Pudding-soft ewe curd set in bowls; slightly acidic, sweetish.
- Rind
- None; milk-white
- Size
- ~400 g; bowl shape
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd38 °C
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
ReblecItaly, Valle d'Aosta
Unsalted creamy household curd of farm families.
- Rind
- None
- Size
- Small cylinder or truncated cone, variable
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd1.5 h · 36 °C
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
Reblec de cramaItaly, Valle d'Aosta
Cream-enriched Reblec; eaten plain, with herbs and spices, or sweetened as a dessert.
- Rind
- None
- Size
- Small cylinder or truncated cone, variable
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd1.5 h · 35 °C
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
Robiola d'AlbaItaly, Piemonte
Small soft cow robiola, moist and chalky-granular, with a fresh acidic note.
- Rind
- None in industrial versions; thin, soft, cream to light straw, slightly mouldy when aged in traditional ones
- Size
- 300–400 g; cylinder ø 9–12 cm, side 2.5–3.0 cm
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Ripen
Robiola della Val BormidaItaly, Liguria
Among the oldest Ligurian ewe cheeses; tiny, creamy, very mild uncut-curd robiola sold only locally.
- Rind
- None, or a thin wrinkled moist skin, white to ivory
- Size
- 0.2–0.4 kg; small cylinder or block
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen4–6 days
SalagnùnItaly, Piemonte
Large salted, spiced block of re-kneaded toma, shaped for slicing; formerly a way to save faulty cheese.
- Rind
- Thin, light dark-ochre
- Size
- 8.0–15.0 kg; rectangular block
- Prepare the milk
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
SalignunItaly, Piemonte
Also called Salgnun.
Spiced ball of re-kneaded Tometto, white flecked red and green with spices, often hearth-smoked.
- Rind
- None when fresh; thin, ochre-brown when smoke-dried
- Size
- 0.250–0.500 kg; roughly spherical
- Prepare the milk
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Ser koryciński swojski PGIPodlasie
basket-moulded
- Milk
- cow milk, raw
- Ripening
- fresh–weeks
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Sot la trapeItaly, Friuli Venezia Giulia
'Under the pomace': affined in grape must or pomace rather than wine, so fruit aromas reach the centre.
- Rind
- Treated; violet with red pomace, bright yellow with white
- Size
- Latteria ø 30–33 cm, height 8 cm, 6 kg; caciotta ø 10–15 cm, height 10 cm, 1–3 kg
- Prepare the milk
- Mould and salt
- Ripen8–10 days · 10–15 °C
Spressa delle Giudicarie PDOTrentino
low fat
- Milk
- cow milk, skim
- Ripening
- ≥3 mo
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Stagionato di bufala di FormelloItaly, Lazio
Aged buffalo table or grating cheese; flaky paste with irregular eyes under the rind.
- Rind
- Thin, semi-hard to hard; ochre if clean, blackish if waxed
- Size
- About 2 kg; cylinder with basket marks
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen6–12 months
Stracchino di capraItaly, Lazio
Creamy goat-milk stracchino; also made organically.
- Rind
- None, or thin, soft, sometimes bloomy, porcelain-white
- Size
- 0.250–2.0 kg; square tile or small cylinder by area
- Prepare the milk
- Set the curd
- Cut and drain the curd
- Mould and salt
- Ripen
Teviotdale PDOBorders
- Milk
- cow milk, (Jersey)
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Tilsiter (German)East Prussia origin
smear, small openings
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- ~2–5 mo
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).
Tilsiter (Swiss)Thurgau
red, green, yellow labels for milk type
- Milk
- cow milk
- Ripening
- ≥2 mo
Made like Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette).