Moose cheese vs Prästost
Moose cheese
Facts
- Country
- Sweden
- Place
- Bjurholm, Sweden
Moose cheese is a rare Swedish cheese made from moose milk in Bjurholm. The animals give little milk, and milking them is slow, so only a small amount of cheese is made. Makers turn that milk into more than one style, including a cheese with a rind, a blue, and a fresh brined cheese. You will not find those styles beside everyday wedges in a normal grocery case. The name refers to the milk, and the short supply is why the cheese stays scarce.
Prästost
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Waxed or sealed
- Country
- Sweden
Prästost is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese from Sweden. The name means priest cheese, and it recalls an old custom of paying a church tithe in farm goods, including milk. Farms turned that milk into a small-eyed cheese that could keep. Today the style is made in dairies from pasteurized milk and sold across the country. The paste is yellow, smooth, and lightly open, with a savory tang.