sapsago

[ sap-sey-goh, sap-suh-goh ]

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noun

a strong, hard, usually green cheese of Swiss origin, made with sour skim milk and sweet clover.

sapsago

/ ˈ��æ��əˌɡəʊ /

noun

a hard greenish Swiss cheese made with sour skimmed milk and coloured and flavoured with clover

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sapsago¹

1840–50, Americanism; alteration of German Schabziger, Schabzieger, equivalent to schab ( en ) to grate + Zi ( e ) ger a kind of cheese

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sapsago¹

C19: changed from German Schabziger, from schaben to grate + dialect Ziger a kind of cheese

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Sapsago, sap′sā-gō, n. a greenish Swiss cheese.

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After that add the Sapsago, finely grated, and wine in small splashes.

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From here you can go as far as you like with varied layers of melting cheeses alternating with asparagus, until you come to the top, where you add two more kinds of cheese, a mixture of powdered Parmesan with Sapsago to give the new-mown hay scent.

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Good when overlaid with cheese butter of contrasting piquance, say one mixed with Sapsago.

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Kreuterkäse, Herb Cheese Switzerland Hard, grating cheese flavored with herbs; like Sapsago or Grunkäse.

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SAPS sapsucker

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