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Cheese of the Alt Urgell and Cerdanya

la Seu d'Urgell, Alt Urgell, Lleida

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Cheese of the Alt Urgell and Cerdanya

Food and drink · la Seu d'Urgell, Alt Urgell, Lleida

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Formatge de l'Alt Urgell i la Cerdanya is a Catalan cheese made from pasteurized whole Friesian cow's milk, produced in La Seu d'Urgell by the Cooperativa Lletera del Cadí, founded in 1915, under the name Urgèlia, with milk from the Alt Urgell and the Baixa Cerdanya. It is the only cheese in Catalonia with a protected designation of origin, the fruit of the development of the Pyrenean dairy industry in the first half of the 20th century. It is a soft-paste cheese, with a maximum maturing period of one month; its interior shows small eyes and an ivory colour, and the rind is orange in tone. It has a flat, cylindrical shape, a wide diameter and little height, with a weight not exceeding two kilos, and it is made only with cow's milk, animal rennet, lactic ferments and salt.

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