Tome des Bauges vs Tomme
Tome des Bauges
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Savoie
Tome des Bauges is a pressed cow's milk cheese from Savoie, in France. The single m in Tome follows an old local spelling, and it marks this cheese apart from Tomme de Savoie. Wheels are flat and modest, with a thick gray rind that can look uneven and lightly mottled. The paste is ivory to pale yellow, supple, and able to soften with heat while it still holds a slice. Herds in the Bauges uplands supply the milk, and the flavor is milky, nutty, and lightly fruity.
Tomme
Facts
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
Tomme is a French cheese word more than a single recipe, and it usually means a round, flat wheel with a natural rind. The paste is pressed and not cooked the way a very dry grating cheese is cooked, so the texture stays semi-hard and supple. Many tommes were traditionally made from milk that had already lost some cream. The word covers farm cheeses across France. A label that says only tomme names a style, not one fixed cheese from one valley.