Cheese Database

Bryndza vs Liptauer

Bryndza, field guide plate
Bryndza, photographed

Bryndza

Facts

Milk
Sheep
Texture
Soft
Type
Fresh
Rind
No rind
Country
Poland

Bryndza is a soft sheep's milk cheese eaten in Poland and in several other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The paste is white, crumbly, and salty, and it spreads more easily than it slices. Makers crumble a fresh sheep cheese, salt it, and work it into a moist mass that is often sold from a tub. The taste is tangy and sharp rather than mild or buttery. It belongs in savory cooking as much as it belongs on bread.

Liptauer

Facts

Texture
Fresh
Type
Fresh
Rind
No rind
Country
Hungary

Liptauer is a seasoned cheese spread from Hungary, sold in pots and also mixed at home. Soft white curd cheese is blended with sweet paprika, onion, and warm spices until the paste turns rosy orange. The result is not a wheel and it has no rind. It is a spoonable mixture meant for bread and raw vegetables. In Hungarian cooking the same spread is widely known as körözött, and paprika is the flavor people expect first.