Uunijuusto is a

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dish made from

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colostrum Colostrum, also known as beestings or first milk, is the first form of milk produced by the mammary glands of mammals (including humans) immediately following delivery of the newborn. Colostrum powder is rich in high protein and low in sugar and ...

, the first

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of a calved cow, by adding a pinch of salt (some 0.5 grams per a litre of milk) and by baking the milk in an oven (30 minutes in 150 degrees Celsius, and for a few moments in 250 degrees to slightly brown it on top). Sometimes ''uunijuusto'' is also made from ordinary

and

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. In Sweden, the dish is named ''

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'' (calve's dance). The word ''uunijuusto'' literally means "oven cheese", but ''uunijuusto'' is not properly a cheese. ''Uunijuusto'' is typically eaten for dessert with berries (often cloudberries) or jam or ''mehukeitto'', a soup made from fresh berries such as

lingonberries ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'', the lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or cowberry, is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family Ericaceae, that bears edible fruit. It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Norther ...

or redcurrants.

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