Brânză de burduf (also known as "brânză frământată"Brânza frământată
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, made with sheep (or occasionally buffalo) milk. It has a strong flavour and is slightly soft in texture.

Processing

To obtain it, sweet maturated caş (an

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-like cheese known as " caş dospit") is cut into small pieces, salted and then hand-mixed in a large wooden bowl. The mixture is then placed in a sheep's stomach, or into a sheep's skin that has been carefully cleaned and sawed on the edges, or in a tube made of pine bark (giving it a slight piney bitter taste). The cheese can be consumed even if kept for a long time in a sheep's stomach or in a sheep's skin. If kept in pine bark, the cheese gets a specific

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resin flavour. The cheese is specific to different areas from the historical regions of

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and

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(including assortments known as: "Brânză în coajă de brad" (Cheese in fir shell, famous in the traditional cheese region of

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). A softer, more fatty variant of it is known as "Brânză de putină", "Cremă Focșani", "Brânză Moldova", "Brânză Dorna" (commonly found in supermarkets), "Brânză Luduș", "Brânză Bistrița", "Brânză Săveni" or "Brânză Botoșana".Brânza de burduf
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Regions where it is traditionally found

area of Rucăr–Bran Pass -

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Notes and references

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Processing

Regions where it is traditionally found

See also

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