[Sca-cooks] Re: Mysost/Gjetost (cheese)

[Kathleen Madsen]

I, too, wish to respectfully disagree.  ;)  I'd
recommend you do a google search on the term "Gomost"
and review the url's that come up.  Also, I have a
very reliable text that provides further information
on the cheese named "Gomost" and Gjetost/Gietost -
indicating that Gomost is the whole milk version and
Gjetost is the whey version.  I purchase Gjetost in
both bulk (which is advertised as Ekte Gjetost but is
in actuality produced from whey)  and in retail
packaging (labled as Gjetost) for my customers and the
package ingredients on both packages show that the
cheese product is made from whey, not from whole milk.

I have an importer that I can purchase Gomost from
when I buy pallets of cheese.  This cheese comes in
labled as Gomost.

Eibhlin, one of those American Scandinavian Lutherans
too.  :)

PS - text is "Cheeses of the World" and it was put out
by the US Dept. of Agriculture in 1969.  This book
documents a lot of cheeses that were made on home
farms back in the '50's before a lot of them
disappeared due to refrigeration, industrialization,
shelf stabilization, and fast forms of transport.

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> I wish to disagree. I may not know much of a lot of
> cheeses but I do know
> that Gjetost is traditionally whole goat's milk,
> boiled to caramelize the
> milk sugars.
> Mysost is made from cow's milk whey.
> Gomost is not the same and if I remember correctly
> is almost like a Gouda in
> taste (been years) and is made of cow's milk and
> sometimes on a rare
> occasion goat's milk.
> Okay, I just read from Wikipedia which I take with a
> grain of salt.
> Presently, Gjetost is being  identified as goat milk
> whey cheese and the
> whole goat milk cheese is being called ekte geitost
> (real goat cheese).
> My info comes from American Norwegian Lutherans from
> years back. :)
> Lyse
>