It has a distinctive sweet, caramel-like flavour. It has a distinctive sweet, almost caramel like flavour. Children in Scandinavia warm the cheese in their hands and roll it into a ball before sucking it like a sweet.
The cheese itself is made by boiling down whey which has been mixed with cream. You can find light or dark cheeses depending on how long the whey is cooked for, ours is a young example giving it a light orange colour with an extremely creamy texture.
Cheesemakers in Norway have been producing Gjetost for over years. It was seen as a great way to extract as much value from their milk as they possibly could. Anna Hov came up with the idea of adding cream to the whey when boiling and to boil it down until the fluid content was reduced creating a firmer, fattier cheese like product. The product immediately caught on, and was soon commonly produced and consumed in the area. This cheese has a distinctively sweet caramel flavour with a slightly firm texture.
Best eaten in very thin slivers with crusty bread. It is great melted on toast or waffles with chopped bananas for an alternative breakfast. Please choose a preferred delivery date in the box provided in checkout but during busy times this can be extended.
If you would like to add cheese from the cheese room to your internet order please email info connage. Due to seasonality occasionally a product may be out of stock, we will substitute with a product similar in both style and price. Gjetost quantity. Categories: Cheese , Hard Cheese.
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