Vlaskaas - does anyone have a recipe?

[WhiteSageFarms]

I bought a piece of Beemster's Vlaskaas yesterday, which I'd never tried before, and I immediately fell deeply, madly in love. I searched this forum, only found one post that even mentions it, and I can't find a recipe anywhere. I looked in my 2 cheesemaking books, Ricki Carroll's and 200 Easy Homemade Cheese recipes by Debra Amrein-Boyes and on the internet.

Does anyone have any info that might help me? I'm not sure this is the right section to post it, but I'm guessing it's in the same catagory as Gouda etc.

~ Laurie

[Mondequay]

deeply, madly in love

I must find this cheese! Hope WholeFoods has it.
Christine

[linuxboy]

It's not the make process that makes vlaskaas especially distinctive, but more the culture and milk. Not easy to replicate here, it's difficult to get Dutch cultures unless you want to spend a decent amount of money. Beemster does a great job with engineering the flavor profiles of their cheeses.

[DeejayDebi]

From what I've read it may be an aged gouda ...