Cream cheese vs Neufchâtel
Cream cheese
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Fresh
- Type
- Fresh
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- United States
Cream cheese is a fresh, rich cow's-milk cheese set with acid. It was developed in the United States in the late nineteenth century, and it is made to spread.
Neufchâtel
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Bloomy rind
- Rind
- Bloomy rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Normandy
Neufchâtel is a soft cow's milk cheese from Normandy, in France, with a white bloomy rind and a creamy interior. It is a fresh-ripened cheese in the same broad family as Camembert, but the paste is often a little firmer and more grainy when young. The flavor is mild, salty, and lightly mushroomy, and it deepens as the rind ripens the center. Many traditional pieces are heart shaped, though other forms exist. It is eaten with bread more often than it is cooked hard.