Caş

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Caş (IPA: [kaʃ]) is a type of cheese made in Romania.

It is made up by adding rennet to the fresh milk and after it coagulates the curd is crushed and then gathered and hanged in a textile material to allow the juice to flow. The cheese thus obtained has a round teardrop shape and is dried and matured until it gets a yellow colour and a small sour taste.

The caş is subsequently used to make other types of cheese such as the brânză de burduf or caşcaval.

Outside Transylvania, the term caş is sometimes used to refer to the telemea cheese before, or just after being salted.

The word caş is derived from the Latin caseus and it is a cognate of the English cheese.