This is a list of
cheese
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Netherlands
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Dutch cheeses
![Maasdam-cheese](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Maasdam-cheese.jpg)
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Beemster
Beemster () is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Beemster is the first so-called polder in the Netherlands that was reclaimed from a lake, the water being extracted from the lake by windmills. The Beem ...
– a hard cow's milk cheese, traditionally from cows grazed on sea-clay soil in
polders
A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. The three types of polder are:
# Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed
# Flood plains ...
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Boerenkaas – "farmhouse cheese", prepared using raw unpasteurised milk
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Edam - a red-waxed semi-hard cows' milk cheese named after the town of
Edam
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Graskaas - "grass cheese", a seasonal cows' milk cheese made from the first milkings after the cows are let into the
pasture
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Gouda - a semi-hard cows' milk cheese traditionally traded in
Gouda, now often used as a worldwide
generic term
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for Dutch-style cheese.
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Kanterkaas
Kanterkaas is a Dutch yellow cheese made from cow's milk. Apart from the plain variety, there is Kanterkomijnekaas which is flavored with cumin and Kanternagelkaas flavored with both cumin and cloves. ''Kanter'' is Dutch for 'edge' and refers ...
- "edge cheese", a hard cheese produced in Friesland, with variants flavoured with cumin and cloves.
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Leerdammer
Leerdammer () is a Dutch semihard cheese made from cow's milk. It has an ageing time around 3–12 months. It has a creamy white texture and was made to be similar in appearance and flavor to Emmental. Its sweet and somewhat nutty flavour becomes ...
– a trademarked
Emmental
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-style semi-firm cows' milk cheese
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Leyden
Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...
- a cows' milk cheese flavoured with cumin and caraway seed
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Limburger
Limburger (in southern Dutch contexts Rommedoe, and in Belgium Herve cheese) is a cheese that originated in the Herve area of the historical Duchy of Limburg, which had its capital in Limbourg-sur-Vesdre, now in the French-speaking Belgian pr ...
- a soft cheese with a distinctive smell, traditionally from the area of the former
Duchy of Limburg
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Maaslander - a trademarked Gouda-style cheese made in
Huizen
Huizen () is a municipality and a village in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands.
The name "Huizen" is Dutch for "houses" and this usage has been linked to the belief that the first stone houses, instead of the more common sod houses ...
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Maasdam - an Emmental-style semi-firm cows' milk cheese
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Nagelkaas - "clove cheese", flavoured cows' milk cheese from Friesland.
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Old Amsterdam
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Places
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– a hard cows' milk cheese
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Parrano
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Parrano borders the following municipalities: Ficulle, Montegabb ...
– a trademarked Gouda-style semi-firm cheese
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Prima Donna
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''Prime donne'' often had grand off-stage per ...
- a similar style of cheese trademarked by a different company.
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Roomano
Roomano () is a hard Gouda-like cheese from Friesland in the northern Netherlands. The major difference with Gouda is the percentage of butterfat in the cheese: Gouda contains 48% butterfat or more, while Roomano contains less than 48% butterfat ...
- an aged, hard cheese with a lower butterfat percentage than other Gouda-style cheeses
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Vlaskaas
Vlaskaas is a Dutch Gouda cheese
Gouda (, , ;
nl, Goudse kaas, "cheese from Gouda") is a sweet, creamy, yellow cow's milk cheese originating from the Netherlands. It is one of the most popular cheeses worldwide. The name is used today as a ...
– "flax cheese", a firm, yet creamy texture and a sweet, sharp flavor
See also
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List of cheeses
This is a list of cheeses by place of origin. Cheese is a milk-based food that is produced in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms. Hundreds of types of cheese from various countries are produced. Their styles, textures and flavors depe ...
References
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Cow's-milk cheeses
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
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