Stuyt Dairy — Cumin Cheese

🥛 Local delivery & in-store pickup. This is a fresh, cold item. Order it here and choose Local Delivery (within 5 miles of our Modesto store, delivered after 7 PM) or Pickup at 429 McHenry Ave at checkout — we keep it cold the whole way. It cannot be shipped nationally.

The classic Dutch spiced cheese: raw-milk Gouda studded with whole cumin seed.

In the Netherlands this style is called komijnekaas and it has been made for centuries; warm, earthy cumin against buttery cheese is one of the great pairings. Stuyt makes it in the Dutch tradition from raw cow's milk from their own herd, aged a minimum of sixty days. Raw milk keeps its enzymes and cultures, so the cheese tastes fuller than a pasteurized version of the same age.

Who this is for

• Anyone with Dutch roots who misses the real thing
• Cheese boards that need something beyond the usual cheddar and brie
• Dark bread, mustard and a lager
• You like caraway rye and want the cheese version

Details

Sold by the piece. Keep refrigerated; wrap the cut face in paper or wax rather than tight plastic. Raw cow's milk, aged over 60 days.

Made by the Stuyt family, a fourth-generation dairy family in Escalon, California, who began making cheese from their own milk in 2015.