Thor Viking Cheese, Priest 24 month, 2,68 lb (1 kilo)

Thor Viking Cheese, Priest 24 month, 2,68 lb (1 kilo)

Thor Viking Cheese, Priest 24 month, 2,68 lb (1 kilo)

Thor is a part of the famous Viking Cheese brand, a brand with strong taste, long maturity, high-end cheese in the delicatess segment. Thor, the most powerful of the Asa gods struck his hammer and Thor Viking Cheese is a real taste sensation of Swedish Priest Cheese as it´s prime!

Powerful Swedish aged hard cheese with some nuttiness, strong saltiness and sweet tones. The cheese, which has been stored for about 18 months, has a gritty texture and crackling crystals. Thor Priest cheese, a part of the famous Viking cheese brand, is many times rewarded for its good taste and fine quality, so this is a safe choice for those who love stored priest cheese on the sandwich, biscuits or in cooking. A well-aged cheese like Thor Priest, 24 months 31%, is a matter of course on a well-composed cheese tray.

Thor Priest is a juicy, juicy cheese, smooth and easily digestible and with a fairly high water content. It has an open cut surface with many pipes. Upon further storage, the taste becomes more aromatic.

Priest cheese is a large, granular, hard cheese stored. As such, it is probably our oldest cheese and probably dates back to the 13th century, although the oldest safe evidence is only available from the 18th century, but with clear indications also from the 16th century. The priest’s cheese was made in the rectory by the women of the area, who brought with them both small pickled cheeses and fresh milk to be able to make a large cheese together. The cheese making itself was called Ystagänge and was also a big party in the area. The priest’s cheese was thus the small people’s tax cheese and tribute to the priesthood. In 1741, our world-famous Swedish scientist Carl von Linné describes the priest’s cheese as follows: “the cheese, especially the one made by the priests from the whole parish’s milk, has priority over all other Swedish cheese, and also for Dutch cheese”. The priest’s cheese has a clear geographical connection to Småland, which is about the province’s small and poor farms that did not have enough milk to make a whole cheese from but which required a collective cheese-making. But also in southern Östergötland, Värmland and Gotland, Prästost has been produced historically and perhaps elsewhere. There are also descriptions of the cheese gang on Öland, as in Hans Medelius’ book Food and Meal on Öland.

The father of Swedish gastronomy, Charles Emil Hagdahl, describes in his classic book Kok-konsten som vetenskap och konst (p. 679) a drastic story with Prästosten in the center: “The fatty cheese, which is also the best, has also more and more disappeared with us ; how many amateurs do not now shed tears of gratitude at the memory of our for their colossal forms and exquisite taste widely famous Småland’s priest, whose reputation is even said to have come to the Empress Catherine, who in a handwriting to Gustaf III asked for a able Småland priest. But at the breaking of the letter the word “cheese” happened to get stuck under the varnish, and the king read only the words “able Småland’s priest,” for which reason he immediately sent one, probably as good as possible. She is said to have found the joke good, and when she finally sent home the happy priest, the congregation seemed to find that he came home much more gifted than he left. ” It should be added here that the Russian Tsar Catherine II – also called Catherine the Great – was a cousin of the Swedish king Gustaf III, why a contact between them even if such an ordinary thing as a cheese is not very strange.

Thor was one of the Asa gods in Old Norse mythology and was considered the most powerful of the gods. His hair and beard were red and so were his eyes and eyebrows. His special residence is Trudheim where he resides in the castle Bilskirne.

Thor is mainly associated with thunder, but according to Old Norse belief, he also monitored the weather in general and he was especially important to the farmers because he gave them rain. When it thundered from the sky, the origin was considered to be Thor (hence the word thunder island; thunder is by the way called thunder in Norwegian), who in the sky riding in his chariot, pulled by the goats Tanngrisner and Tanngnjost, fought with the giants. Every time Thor swung his hammer, Mjölner, at the giants, lightning struck.

The giants were a threat to the people and Thor was their main protector. Of utmost importance to be able to defeat the giants was Thor’s hammer which was made by the dwarves and always returned to Thor’s hand after being thrown away. Ancient northerners could be seen wearing smaller hammers as jewelry in the form of protective amulets.

Ingredients: Pasteurized Swedish milk, sourdough culture, rennet, salt, preservatives (E251, E202 and E235).