Tilsit cheese or tilsiter cheese is a pale yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese, created in the mid-19th century by prussian-swiss settlers, the westphal family, from the emmental valley. the original buildings from the cheese plant still exist in sovetsk, russia, formerly tilsit, on the neman river (also known as the memel), in the former german province of east prussia.the same ingredients to make the cheese were not available as in their home country, and the cheese became colonized by different moulds, yeasts, and bacteria in the humid climate. the result was a cheese that was more intense and full-flavoured. the settlers named the cheese after tilsit, the prussian town where they had...

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