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Frisian Cheese Foodways

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FRIESE NAGELKAAS โ€” clove cheese, a hard skimmed-milk cheese studded with cloves and cumin, which is the genuinely distinctive Frisian cheese and was a way of using milk left after the cream went to butter. Also Friese kanterkaas, kanternagelkaas and kanterkomijnekaas, which hold a protected designation. โš  GOUDA AND EDAM ARE DUTCH, NOT FRISIAN, though they are made in Fryslรขn too; "Frisian cheese" is not a synonym for Dutch cheese.

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Communities and languages

Languages: West Frisian

What is recorded

  • Friese nagelkaas, with cloves and cumin, is the distinctively Frisian cheese and arose from using skimmed milk left after buttermaking. Gouda and Edam are Dutch cheeses, made in Fryslรขn among other places, and are not recorded as Frisian. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Dutch Foodways documented

    โš  Gouda and Edam are Dutch cheeses made in Fryslรขn too; nagelkaas is the Frisian one.

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