Cheese Database

Brânză de burduf vs Caș

Brânză de burduf

Facts

Milk
Sheep
Texture
Soft
Rind
No rind
Country
Romania

Brânză de burduf is a salty sheep's milk cheese from Romania. The name refers to the burduf, the skin or bark container the cheese was traditionally packed into. Makers start with a matured fresh sheep's cheese, salt it, and knead it until it becomes a soft, strong paste. The flavor is bold, and the texture is slightly soft, sometimes creamy and sometimes a little crumbly. It is a country cheese for bread and hearty food, not a mild slicing cheese.

Caș

Facts

Texture
Semi-soft
Type
Fresh
Rind
No rind
Country
Romania

Caș is a semi-soft white cheese from Romania. It is a fresh curd cheese, unsalted or only lightly salted, with a clean milky taste and a moist body that you can slice. Makers curdle the milk with rennet and drain the whey, then sell the cheese while it is still young. It has no rind and no long aging. In Romanian cooking it is both a food on its own and the starting point for other cheeses.