If you've noticed Carr Valley's brown-spotted bread cheese in local cheese cases, you might have looked twice and wondered exactly what part was bread, what part was cheese and what you were supposed to do with it. That was my reaction.
Carr Valley is a cheese company in Wisconsin that manufactures many distinctive cheeses, and also duplicates cheeses from all over the world. According to their website, bread cheese is their version of Juustoleipa (also written as Leipajuusto), an old-fashioned Finnish cheese.
The word Juustoleipa translates to "bread cheese." Despite that, there is no bread in the cheese — it does, however, resemble exactly a freshly-baked Finnish potato flat bread because of its shape and the brown spots it develops when it is broiled during part of the processing.
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