Baguette laonnaise vs Maroilles
Baguette laonnaise
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Washed rind
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- France
Baguette laonnaise is a washed-rind cow's milk cheese from France. The piece is a small loaf or a brick, which is why the name begins with baguette. The rind is orange-brown, moist, and ridged from washing. Under that rind the paste is supple and dense, with a few small openings. The smell is strong, and the flavor is spicy and persistent, in the same broad taste group as Maroilles.
Maroilles
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Washed rind
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Maroilles is a cow's milk cheese from Nord-Pas-de-Calais in northern France, and makers also produce it in Picardy. It is sold as a square or rectangular block with a moist orange-red rind. That rind is washed while the cheese ages, which builds a strong smell well before the first taste. The paste is soft, pale, and savory, with a supple body that slices when fairly young and slumps a little when ripe. In the north it is both a board cheese and a cooking cheese.