Hey SmokinHusker, no c-view of this smoke... didn't think about taking pix for this one.
As for 'what kind of cheese is it'? Well, I really don't know. Like I said above, I hadn't even heard of it until the other day. My wife found it when she was out shopping and brought it home and asked me to throw it in the smoker with the rest of the cheese...
Seems this is turning into quite the little mystery....
Here's what I found on Wikipedia:
Leerdammer is a
Dutch semi-hard
cheese made from
cow's
milk. It has an aging time of around 3–12 months. It has a creamy white texture and was made to be similar in appearance and flavor to
Emmental, but it is rounder in taste. It has a sweet and somewhat nutty flavour that becomes more pronounced with age. It also has distinct holes in it. In a past advertisement campaign this was made use in claiming jokingly that "the taste is around the holes".
The cheese is produced exclusively by le
Groupe Bel. The Leerdammer name is a trade mark of Bel Leerdammer B.V.[sup]
[1][/sup]
Leerdammer cheese is produced in
Schoonrewoerd in the municipality of
Leerdam, the city which gave Leerdammer its name. Generic Leerdammer-style cheese is sold as
Maasdam cheese.
The cheese was developed by Cees Boterkooper, who owned a small dairy in Schoonrewoerd since 1914[sup]
[2][/sup], and Bastiaan Baars, who ran a cheese shop in a nearby village. The two met in 1970, and soon afterward decided to collaborate. They worked on a cheese that could compete with
Gouda and
Edam. Leerdammer was launched in 1977.[sup]
[3][/sup][sup]
[4][/sup]
Guess I'll find out in a few weeks when I open the first vac-pack....
-Salt
