The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
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page 242 of 464 (52%)
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Brinza.
Brine _see_ Italian Bra, Caucasian Ekiwani, Brina Dubreala, Briney. Briney, or Brined _Syria_ Semisoft, salty, sharp. So-called from being processed in brine. Turkish Tullum Penney is of the same salt-soaked type. Brinza, or Brinsen _Hungary, Rumania, Carpathian Mountains_ Goes by many local names: Altsohl, Klencz, Landoch, Liptauer, Neusohl, Siebenburgen and Zips. Soft, sheep milk or sheep and goat; crumbly, sharp and biting, but creamy. Made in small lots and cured in a tub with beech shavings. Ftinoporino is its opposite number in Macedonia. Brioler _see_ Westphalia. Briquebec _see_ Providence Briqueton _England_ The French name for English Wiltshire Brickbat, one of the very few cheeses imported into France. Known in France in the eighteenth century, it may have influenced the making of Trappist Port-Salut at the Bricquebec Monastery in Manche. |
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