Liptauer vs Spundekäs
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.
Spundekäs
Facts
- Texture
- Fresh
- Type
- Fresh
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- Germany
Spundekäs is a fresh cheese specialty from Germany, tied to the wine country of Rhenish Hesse along the Rhine. It is not an aged wheel with a rind. Cooks stir fresh cheese and quark into a soft cream, tint it with paprika, and season it with salt, pepper, and often onion. The mound was traditionally shaped like the bung, or spund, that closed a wine barrel, and that shape gave the dish its name. Wine taverns serve it as a spread with bread and pretzels.