Queso de Prensa
Puerto Rico

The name means pressed cheese.  It is eaten either fresh or after ripening two or three months.

Queso de Puna
Puerto Rico

Like U.S. cottage or Dutch cheese, eaten fresh.

Queso de Tapara
Venezuela

Made in Carora, near Barqisimeto, called tapara from the shape and tough skin of that local gourd.  “It is very good fresh, but by the time it arrives in Carora it is often bad and dry.”  D.K.K. in Bueno Provecho.

Queso Fresco
El Salvador

Cottage-cheese type.

Queville see Chapter 3.

Queyras see Champoleon.

R

Rabacal
Coimbra, Portugal

Semisoft; sheep or goat; thick, round, four to five inches in diameter.  Pleasantly oily, if made from sheep milk.

Rabbit Cheese
U.S.A.

A playful name for Cheddar two to three years old.

Radener
Germany

Hard; skim, similar to Emmentaler; made in Mecklenburg.  Sixteen by four inches, weight 32 pounds.

Radolfzeller Cream
Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Similar to Muenster.

Ragnit see Tilsit.

Rahmkaese, Allgaeuer
German

Cream.

Rainbow
Mexico

Mild; mellow.

Ramadoux
Belgium

Soft; sweet cream; formed in cubes.  Similar to Herve

Rammil or Rammel
England

Andre Simon calls this “the best cheese made in Dorsetshire.”  Also called Rammilk, because made from whole or “raw milk.”  Practically unobtainable today.

Rangiport
France

A good imitation of Port-Salut made in Seine-et-Oise.

Rarush Durmar
Turkey

Brittle; mellow; nutty.

Raecherkaese

The name for all smoked cheese in Germanic countries, where it is very popular.

Raviggiolo
Tuscany, Italy

Ewe’s milk.  Uncooked; soft; sweet; creamy.

Rayon or Raper
Switzerland

A blind Emmentaler called Rayon is shipped young to Italy, where it is hardened by aging and then sold as Raper, for grating and seasoning.

Reblochon or Roblochon
Savoy

Sheep; soft; whole milk; in season from October to June.  Weight one to two pounds.  A cooked cheese imitated as Brizecon in the same section.

Recollet de Gerardmer
Vosges, France

A harvest variety similar to Gerome, made from October to April

Red
Russia

see Livlander.

Red Balls
Dutch

see Edam.

Reggiano see Grana.

Regianito
Argentine

Italian Reggiano type with a name of its own, for it is not a mere imitation in this land of rich milk and extra fine cheeses.