Handkäse
Sign in to savethumb|Handkäs mit Musik (Hessian language|Hessian: Handkäse with music); marinated Handkäse Handkäse (; literally: "hand cheese") is a German regional sour milk cheese (similar to Harzer) and is a culinary specialty of Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach am Main, Darmstadt, Langen, and other parts of southern Hesse. It gets its name from the traditional way of producing it: forming it with one's own hands.
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- Cheese.name
- Handkäse
- Cheese.image
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- Cheese.othernames
- Handkäs
- Cheese.country
- Germany
- Cheese.region
- Hesse
- Cheese.town
- Frankfurt-am-Main
- Cheese.source
- Cow
- Cheese.texture
- Soft but firm
- Cheese.fat
- 1.1% to 2.3%
- Cheese.protein
- 26.6% to 37.7%
- Cheese.certification
- PGI (Hessischer Handkäse)
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thumb|Handkäs mit Musik (Hessian language|Hessian: Handkäse with music); marinated Handkäse Handkäse (; literally: "hand cheese") is a German regional sour milk cheese (similar to Harzer) and is a culinary specialty of Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach am Main, Darmstadt, Langen, and other parts of southern Hesse. It gets its name from the traditional way of producing it: forming it with one's own hands.
Handkäse is a small, translucent, yellow cheese. It has a pungent aroma, and a sour taste.