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sapsago

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

noun

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


sapsago

/ ˈæəˌɡəʊ /

noun

  1. a hard greenish Swiss cheese made with sour skimmed milk and coloured and flavoured with clover
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51Թ 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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51Թ 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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Sapsago has its own seduction, derived from the clover-leaf powder with which the curd is mixed and which gives it its haunting flavor and spring-like sage-green color.

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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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The imported but still cheap green Sapsago is not to be forgotten when mixing your own cheese butter.

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Glavis Switzerland The brand name of a cone of Sapsago.

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