emmental cheese
emmental cheese (sometimes also called emmentaler or emmenthal) is a swiss cheese. it first came from switzerland. it is named after the emmental, the valley of a river, near berne. emmental cheese was first made around 1292 in that region.
emmental cheese is left to ripen for a period of 6-7 weeks. ripening it for 8-12 weeks gives a more spicy (salty) cheese. in europe, about 464 200 tons of emmental are produced each year.
emmental cheese is the formal name for swiss cheese.
when i was a kid, we used to refer to swiss cheese as “rat cheese,” because it was the type of cheese always depicted in cartoons featuring mice and rats. later i learned that not all cheese with holes is swiss cheese and not all swiss cheese has holes.
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