Bryndza from Stará Turá (Western Slovakia) toward the end of the 18th century who founded bryndza manufactures in mountainous regions of Central and Northern Slovakia where sheep cheese production had deep roots in the local cheese manufacturing tradition, and traded with it, popularizing bryndza all around the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy. In Austria, it was called Liptauer, after the northern Slovak Liptov region. The Viennese speciality Liptauer, a savoury cheese-based spread, has replaced bryndza with common cows' milk cottage cheese because the original Slovak bryndza disappeared from Austrian market after the disintegration of Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Bryndza Bryndza (from Romanian "brânză") is product
Hoop cheese with a knife blade suspended above it. It was built by scale companies of the period to cut the exact amount of cheese the customer wanted. Hoop cheese can be found at many small restaurants and independent gas stations and grocers throughout the southern part of the USA. Hoop cheese Hoop cheese is a simple, traditional cheese made only from milk, where the whey has been totally pressed out. It is different from farmer cheese in that farmer cheese is made with milk, cream and salt, while hoop cheese is made from milk alone. Hoop cheese is difficult to find