What is Tilsit cheese used for?

A handy cheese to have at your disposal, Tilsit can be cubed for use in salads, heated for addition to sauces, melted over potatoes, flans, or on burgers. Often flavored with caraway seed and peppercorns, Tilsit is a complement to hearty brown/rye breads and dark beers.

What kind of cheese is Tilsit?

Tilsit cheese or Tilsiter cheese is a pale yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese, created in the mid-19th century by Prussian-Swiss settlers, the Westphal family, from the Emmental valley.

Is Tilsit a hard cheese?

Tilsit cheese, also called tilsiter cheese, is a versatile, semi-hard cheese that originated from in the mid-19th century from Danish settlers in Prussia. It is now commonly produced in Switzerland under the name tilsiter cheese. Tilsit may range from ivory to light yellow in color, and is cultured from cow’s milk.

What does Tilsiter cheese taste like?

A German cheese made from cow’s milk that is considered to be a semi-hard factory cheese. Tilsit is made into a wheel that has a thin off-white or almost yellow crusty rind. The interior texture, filled with tiny holes, is smooth and soft, providing a buttery flavor that may be slighly fruity in taste.

Where is Tilsit today?

Sovetsk (Russian: Сове́тск) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania. Before 1946, the town was Tilsit in German (Lithuanian: Tilžė; Polish: Tylża) in East Prussia….Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast.

Do they still make Limburger cheese?

Today the only American producer of Limburger is Chalet Cheese Cooperative of Monroe, Wisconsin: the seat of Green County. Of the dozens of Master Cheesemakers in Wisconsin, only Chalet’s Myron Olson is certified to make Limburger.