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cheese Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. During production, ...

s from, or connected with,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

Brunost Brunost ("brown cheese") is a common Norwegian name for mysost ("whey cheese"; da, myseost; sv, mesost; fi, mesjuusto; is, mysuostur), a family of cheese-related foods made with whey, milk, and/or cream. The term is often used to just refer t ...
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A caramelized brown Norwegian whey cheese. Brunost (brown cheese) is commonly used instead of mysost (whey cheese). It is regarded as one of

's most iconic foodstuffs, and is considered an important part of Norwegian gastronomical and cultural identity and heritage. Braunkaese

Brunost Brunost ("brown cheese") is a common Norwegian name for mysost ("whey cheese"; da, myseost; sv, mesost; fi, mesjuusto; is, mysuostur), a family of cheese-related foods made with whey, milk, and/or cream. The term is often used to just refer t ...

Mysost Brunost ("brown cheese") is a common Norwegian name for mysost ("whey cheese"; da, myseost; sv, mesost; fi, mesjuusto; is, mysuostur), a family of cheese-related foods made with whey, milk, and/or cream. The term is often used to just refer ...

– brunost is made by boiling a mixture of milk, cream, and whey carefully for several hours so that the water evaporates. The heat turns the milk sugars into caramel, which gives the cheese its characteristic brown colour and sweetness. * Fløtemysost – a type of brunost or brown cheese made from cow's milk. *

Gudbrandsdalsost Brunost ("brown cheese") is a common Norwegian name for mysost ("whey cheese"; da, myseost; sv, mesost; fi, mesjuusto; is, mysuostur), a family of cheese-related foods made with whey, milk, and/or cream. The term is often used to just refer ...

– a type of brunost consisting of goat milk added to fløtemysost. * Geitost – cheese made from whey, milk and cream from goat. ** Ekte geitost ("true goat cheese") – goat cheese containing only goat milk and whey. *

Heidal cheese Heidal cheese ( no, heidalsost or simply ''heidal'') is a Norwegian brunost. The cheese is named after the parish of Heidal in the northern part of the Gudbrand Valley. It is dark brown. Heidal cheese is a molded cheese that was first produced at ...

– a dark brown brunost from

Heidal Heidal or Heidalen is a valley in Sel Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The U-shaped valley follows the river Sjoa which begins in the nearby Jotunheimen mountains eastward until it joins the Gudbrandsdalslågen river in the main valley ...

with a decorative pattern molded on the cheese block. * - Misværost is a goat cheese that is browned very little, it therefore has a light, almost yellow color, and a very mild taste. *

Primost Primost is a Norwegian cheese. The slightly brown cheese is made from cow's milk and has a soft spreadable texture. Cream is added towards the end of the process. The semi-sweet taste is derived from caramelizing the milk sugars of the whey as i ...

- a slightly brown cheese made from cow's milk which has a soft spreadable texture.

Norwegian cheeses

Gamalost Gamalost (also Gammelost, Gammalost) is a traditional Norwegian cheese. History Gamalost, which translates as old cheese, was once a staple of the Norwegian diet. The name might be due to the texture of the surface, or the fact that it is an ol ...

- gamalost, which translates as "old cheese", is a pungent traditional Norwegian cheese. *

Jarlsberg cheese Jarlsberg ( , ) is a mild cheese made from cow's milk, with large, regular eyes, originating from Jarlsberg, Norway. It is produced in Norway, as well as in Ireland and the US state of Ohio, licensed from Norwegian dairy producers. It is classi ...

- a mild

made from cow's-

milk Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digestion, digest solid food. Immune factors and immune ...

, with large, regular

eyes Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide living organisms with vision, the ability to receive and process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response functions that are independent of vision. Eyes detect light and conve ...

, originating from

Jarlsberg Jarlsberg was a former countship that forms a part of today's Vestfold county in Norway. The former countships of Jarlsberg and Larvik were merged into a county in 1821. Jarlsberg and Larvik's County (''Jarlsberg og Larviks amt'') were renamed ...

. *

Kraftkar Kraftkar is a blue cheese from Tingvoll in Nordmøre, Western Norway, made from unskimmed cow's milk and cream, with injected culture of the mold '' Penicillium roqueforti''. The name ''Kraftkar'' ("strongman") relates to the legendary farmhan ...

- a blue cheese from

Tingvoll Tingvoll is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Tingvollvågen. Other villages include Meisingset, Kvisvik, and Torjulvågen. The municipality cove ...

Nordmøre Nordmøre (English: North- Møre) is a traditional district in the Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal. The area comprises the northern third of the county including the municipalities of Kristiansund, Averøy, Tingvoll, Surnadal, Aure, Halsa, ...

, Western

, made from unskimmed cow's milk and cream, with injected culture of the mold ''

Penicillium roqueforti ''Penicillium roqueforti'' is a common saprotrophic fungus in the genus ''Penicillium''. Widespread in nature, it can be isolated from soil, decaying organic matter, and plants. The major industrial use of this fungus is the production of blue ...

''. *

Kvarg Quark or quarg is a type of fresh dairy product made from milk. The milk is soured, usually by adding lactic acid bacteria cultures, and strained once the desired curdling is achieved. It can be classified as fresh acid-set cheese. Tradition ...

- a type of fresh

dairy product Dairy products or milk products, also known as lacticinia, are food products made from (or containing) milk. The most common dairy animals are cow, water buffalo, nanny goat, and ewe. Dairy products include common grocery store food items in th ...

made by warming

soured milk Soured milk denotes a range of food products produced by the acidification of milk. Acidification, which gives the milk a tart taste, is achieved either through bacterial fermentation or through the addition of an acid, such as lemon juice or vineg ...

until the desired amount of

curdling Curdling is the breaking of an emulsion or colloid into large parts of different composition through the physio-chemical processes of flocculation, creaming, and coalescence. Curdling is purposeful in the production of cheese curd and tofu; und ...

is achieved, and then straining it. * Normanna - a solid blue cheese, the taste is aromatic and powerful. Normanna is sliceable with a razor when it is cold, and spreadable when it is temperate. *

Norvegia Norvegia (; Latin for "Norway") is a Norwegian cow's milk cheese produced by Tine. It has a market share of about 60% of white cheeses in Norway.Gouda, it has a mild taste and melts easily. * - a blue cheese with a supple, almost buttery consistency and aromatic and full-bodied. *

Nøkkelost Nøkkelost (Norwegian language, Norwegian: "key cheese") is a common, Norwegian language, Norwegian name for kuminost ("cumin cheese"), a cheese flavored with cumin and cloves. It is semi-hard, yellow, and made from cow's milk, in the shape of whe ...

- a semi-hard, yellow cheese flavoured with cumin and cloves. It is made from cow's milk, in the shape of wheels or blocks, with a maturation period of three months. *

- a soft, mature

sour milk cheese Acid-set or sour milk cheese is cheese that has been curdled (coagulated) by natural souring, often from lactic acid bacteria, or by the addition of acid. This type of cheese is technologically simple to produce. When making soft acid-set cheese ...

flavored with

caraway Caraway, also known as meridian fennel and Persian cumin (''Carum carvi''), is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae, native to western Asia, Europe, and North Africa. Etymology The etymology of "caraway" is unclear. Caraway has been ...

seeds. *

Pultost Pultost is a soft, mature Norwegian sour milk cheese flavored with caraway seeds. Like Gamalost, pultost has a long history in Norway. The cheese is made from skimmed milk that has been soured, similar to cultured buttermilk, flavoured with caraw ...

- a soft, mature

flavored with

seeds. * Ridderost - a

smear-ripened Washed-rind or smear-ripened cheeses are cheeses which are periodically treated with brine or mold-bearing agents. This encourages the growth of certain bacteria on their surface which give them distinctive flavors. There are Hard cheese, hard and ...

cheese with soft and supple consistency. *

Selbu Selbu is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mebonden. Other villages in Selbu include Flora, Fossan, Hyttbakken, Innbygda, Selbustrand, Trøa, Tømra, and Vikvarvet. The ...

- a versatile blue cheese, that goes well on bread or on its own. * Skjørost - a fresh curd of sour skim milk. * Snøfrisk - a goat cheese soft enough to be used as a spread. It comes in several flavours, including original, juniper berry, dill and forest mushrooms. * Søst - has a semi-solid and easily cutable consistency. The taste is round, sweet and caramel-like. {{Cheese *

Brunost Brunost ("brown cheese") is a common Norwegian name for mysost ("whey cheese"; da, myseost; sv, mesost; fi, mesjuusto; is, mysuostur), a family of cheese-related foods made with whey, milk, and/or cream. The term is often used to just refer t ... cheeses

Norwegian cheeses

Brunost Brunost ("brown cheese") is a common Norwegian name for mysost ("whey cheese"; da, myseost; sv, mesost; fi, mesjuusto; is, mysuostur), a family of cheese-related foods made with whey, milk, and/or cream. The term is often used to just refer t ...
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