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Blue Cow’s milk

Danablu

also called Danish Blue

Denmark’s 1920s answer to Roquefort, made with cow’s milk and no apology.

An illustrated wedge of Danablu

Drawn by the app from this cheese’s own record — paste, rind and texture come from the data, not a stock library.

Marius Boel set out to make a Roquefort at a time when Danish dairies had a great deal of cow's milk and no sheep to speak of. What he arrived at is its own thing: homogenised milk gives Danablu a whiter, wetter paste than its French model, and the piercing is generous, so the veining runs everywhere.

It is salty and forward, with a metallic edge that softens under sweetness. Treat it as a cooking blue as much as a board blue — it melts into a sauce or a dressing more willingly than most.

Tastes of

salt sharp mineral tang cream a slight metallic bite

Put it next to

Port Pears Walnut bread Stout Steak sauce

Tasting notes

JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 6 MB. Stored on the app’s persistent volume, so it survives a redeploy.

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