Herrgård Cheese, 6 month, 2,68 lb (1 kilo)
Herrgård Cheese, 6 month, 2,68 lb (1 kilo)
Herrgård – a Swedish round-peppered hard cheese. Herrgård (eng.Manor) cheese is a Swedish type of cheese that dates back to 1786 when an attempt was made to produce a Swedish variant of Swiss cheese.
Herrgård has a clean, full-bodied taste and smells of nuts. When the cheese is stored, it gets a stronger taste, the nuttiness becomes clearer and the aftertaste longer and stronger. Herrgård fits perfectly on the breakfast sandwich and the cheese is also excellent on the cheese plate and in cooking.
The mother of the Swedish manor cheese was the dairy Kristina Löfgren at Bjärka-Säby manor in Östergötland, who was employed there from 1882. She created the archetype of the round-peeled cheese which is today called Swedish manor cheese.
However, it was Count Eric Ruuth on Marsvinsholm who took the first step by hiring a Swiss cheese master at the estate’s dairy in 1786. He would try to produce a Swedish variant of Swiss cheese. The cheese, despite being leathery, became popular around the farms. Kristina Löfgren had learned the “Ruuthian” method. At Bjärka-Säby, she refined the method with great success. Bjärka-Säbyosten was named “national type cheese” at one of the first cheese exhibitions in the country. One of the exhibition judges is said to have expressed: “It tastes like the hassle like a real manor cheese” and that’s where the cheese got its name.
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