Édel de Cléron is a traditional

French cheese This is a list of French cheeses documenting the varieties of cheeses, a milk-based food that is produced in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms, which are found in France. In 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle asked, "How can you gove ...

of relatively recent origin which carries the name of the village where it is made,

Cléron Cléron () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Population Sights * The Château de Cléron is a 14th-century castle, remodelled over the years. Its privately owned and not open to ...

, in the valley of the

Loue The Loue () is a river of eastern France, a left tributary of the Doubs, which it joins downstream of Dole. It is long. Its source is a karst spring in the Jura mountains near Ouhans, which at least partly receives its water from the Doubs. Th ...

of the

Doubs department Doubs (, ; ; frp, Dubs) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the river Doubs, it had a population of 543,974 in 2019.Franche-Comté Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; frp, Franche-Comtât; also german: Freigrafschaft; es, Franco Condado; all ) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, ...

. * By its taste, form and texture, it is close to a

Vacherin Mont-d'Or Vacherin Mont d'Or, or simply Vacherin, is a cow's milk (French ''vache'', "cow") cheese. Two main types of French or Swiss Vacherin cheeses exist. One type of Vacherin cheese is called mont d'Or, or Vacherin du Haut-Doubs, from France,'' 'Fren ...

. * It is made from lightly

pasteurized Pasteurization American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), or pasteurisation is a process of food preservation in which packaged and non-packaged foods (such as milk and fruit juices) are treated with mi ...

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 digest solid food. Immune factors and immune-modulati ...

from the Doubs department. It is made all year long. * It is surrounded by a band, and packaged in a box, of natural aromatic pine bark from the

Jura mountains The Jura Mountains ( , , , ; french: Massif du Jura; german: Juragebirge; it, Massiccio del Giura, rm, Montagnas da Jura) are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the Frenc ...

Notes and references

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