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Liptauer is one of the Monty Python "cheese Shop" cheeses, and as such I must try it. But as I've documented before, deciding just exactly what form of "Liptauer" I need to try to cross it off the list is problematic. A few sources say that Liptauer is a cheese in itself, while the vast majority say that it's a cheese spread made with spices and junk. Making the issue more problematic, some of the sketch versions give the cheese as "Lipto", which certainly is a cheese.

In the end I decided to go the easy route and just mix up some Liptauer spread. In my defense, the sketch also names Boursin, which is a cheese spread made for mystery cheese.

Most recipes for Liptauer are some variation of - cream cheese, Feta, Quark, or Lipto mixed with butter, capers, paprika, and caraway. And it varies enough that you can make a semi-legitimate batch as long as it has some manner of soft cheese and paprika. I decided to go with Quark cheese, paprika, capers, and caraway.

I must say this wasn't something I'll ever eat again. Maybe I just don't like paprika enough. Or maybe putting it in cheese is something you need to be from Austria to enjoy. So...... crossing it off the list.

In the picture above, the quark is the white cheese.