Sheep cheese

Sheep cheese, or brebis, is cheese made with the milk of a ewe, a female sheep.

In particular the term brebis is used in French cheesemaking to refer to fresh, spreadable, acid-set cheese. Compare chevre, made with goat milk, and fromage blanc, made with cow's milk.

Examples

Anari

type of cheese

Anthotyros

traditional Greek whey cheese

Beyaz peynir

Turkish white cheese, made from unpasteurized milk

Sardinian and Corsican cheese

Cazelle de Saint Affrique

Cheshire cheese

cheese from Cheshire, England

Civil peyniri

Dolaz cheese

Turkish sheep or goat cheese

Greek brined curd cheese, made with sheep and goat milk

Formaela

Greek goat or sheep cheese

Graviera

Greek cheese

Halloumi

Cypriot semi-hard, unripened brined cheese

Greek/Turkish sheep's milk cheese

Kefalograviera

Greek cheese

Kefalotyri

sheep and goat cheese of Greece and Cyprus

firm sheep milk cheese from Spain

aged sheep's milk cheese from Turkey

Mizithra

Greek cheese made with milk and whey

Ossau-Iraty

Ossau-Iraty is an Occitan-Basque cheese made from sheep milk.

Padraccio

Italian cheese

Pecorino di Carmasciano

protected designation of origin

Pecorino sardo

Cheese from the Italian island of Sardinia

protected designation of origin

Ricotta

Italian whey cheese

Robiola

Italian soft-ripened cheese of the Stracchino family

milk of domestic sheep

Sirene

type of cheese from the Balkans

Sirine cheese

Cheese from the Balkans

Teleme peyniri

Semi-soft goat's milk cheese of ancient origins

Tomas peyniri

Turkish cheese

Van herbed cheese

A cheese with herbs (otlu peynir), from Turkey, whose most famous version is from the province of Van

Wensleydale

English cheese

Xynomizithra

Greek sheep or goat cheese

Xynotyro

Greek whey cheese

Subcategories: Anari Anthotyros^el Beyaz peynir Caciocavallo^it Caciotta^it Casciotta d'Urbino^it Casu marzu^it Cazelle de Saint Affrique^fr Cheshire cheese Civil peyniri Dolaz cheese Dunlop Faisselle^fr Feta Formaela^el Graviera^el Halloumi Jonchée^fr Kars gravyer cheese Kashkaval Kasseri Kefalograviera^el Kefalotyri^el Lanark Blue Lavaş cheese Manchego Manouri Mató Mel i mató^es Mihaliç Peyniri Mizithra^el Ossau-Iraty^fr Padraccio^it Pecorino Romano^it Pecorino di Carmasciano^it Pecorino di Filiano^it Pecorino sardo^it Pecorino siciliano Pecorino toscano^it Pepato Ragusano cheese^it Ricotta Robiola^it Roquefort^fr Saganaki cheese Sheep's milk Sirene Sirine cheese Teleme peyniri Tomas peyniri Van herbed cheese Wensleydale Xynomizithra^el Xynotyro^el

Categories: Cheese

Also known as:

English: Sheep's milk cheeseSheep's cheeseBrebisSheep's-milk cheeses

Wikidata ID: Q1411808

Wikipedia title: Sheep milk cheese

References:

Wikipedia article: Sheep milk cheese

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