Swedish cheeses

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Hard Swedish cheese

thumb|Swedish Herrgårdsost Herrgårdsost (Manorhouse cheese) is a semi-hard Swedish cheese made from cow's milk. The aged cheese has a mild, nutty and creamy taste. The cheese has small round holes and a waxed surface. Herrgårdsost is usually manufactured in wheels about in diameter and wide, weighing around . Since 2004, the cheese has been marketed under the registered trademark Herrgård, owned by the company Svenska Ostklassiker AB, a subsidiary of Svensk Mjölk.

thumb|250px|Grevé Grevé ( ) is a Swedish cow's milk cheese which is similar to Emmental cheese. The semi-hard cheese has a nut-like, slightly sweet taste and a fat content of 30%–45%. It was first produced in 1964 at Örnsköldsvik in Västernorrland County, Sweden.

Hushållsost ("household cheese") is a Swedish cows'-milk cheese. It is a semi-hard cheese, with small granular holes, and is made from whole milk, which gives it a 26 percent fat content. There is also a version with less fat labeled "17% fetthalt". Hushållsost is produced in cylinders weighing each, which are today wrapped in plastic film before being aged around 60 days on average. The taste is described as mild yet somewhat sour. The cheese was traditionally produced on farms; the name hushållsost is found in print at least as early as 1898. It is closely related to Port-Salut cheese.

right|thumb|A package of Präst cheese Prästost ("priest cheese") is a Swedish cheese with historical roots in Sweden's one-time custom of paying tithes with agricultural goods including milk. Milk spoils easily so most farms instead produced a small eyed cheese that had its curing process started by mixing in a small batch of fermented curds. This was common practice from the 16th through 19th centuries. Today, this style of cheese once produced in churches across Sweden is factory-made from pasteurized cow's milk. Prästost is marketed under the trademark Präst, which was registered in 2001 an

Ädelost (literally meaning "noble cheese" or "fine cheese") is blue cheese from Sweden, made from pasteurized cow's milk. Swedish-made cheese, which is called "ädelost" or "ädel", is generally made from cow's milk and can be said to be a Swedish version of the French blue cheese.

Svecia (or Sveciaost, ost meaning cheese) is a Swedish cheese. It is a semi-hard cow's-milk cheese, with a creamy consistency, light yellow colour, small irregular holes, and a mildly acidic taste. It is produced in wax-covered cylinders weighing each.