Farms, dairies, cooperatives and affineurs in Eger that you can visit or buy from.
A guide to cheese farms in Eger.
Family dairy at Mónosbél in the Bükk, near Eger, making cow's milk cheeses and orda, with gomolya to order. Tastings come with Eger, Mátraalja and Tokaj wines; phone ahead.
Visiting: cheese house with a sample shop (mintabolt), phone ahead, guided cheese tastings poured with Eger, Mátraalja and Tokaj wines, tasting programmes of one to six hours, booked by phone
Family goat farm at Nagyréde, about 8 km west of Gyöngyös in the Mátraalja, outside the Eger wine region. Soft, cream and semi-hard cheeses age in a tufa cellar; tastings and sales by booking.
Cheeses: soft goat cheese, cream goat cheese, semi-hard goat cheese
Visiting: goat cheese tasting and farm tour, booked ahead, cheesemaking demonstration for groups, booked ahead, wine and cheese tasting with Mátraalja wines, oven and cauldron meals by arrangement, goat cheese for sale during visits
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No protected designation is given for it. It is recorded in the national HÍR collection of traditional foods, which describes it as a fresh cheese of about 3 kg.
The HÍR collection gives about 3 kg for a whole loaf.
Raw sheep's milk in the past, raw mixed milk in the first half of the 20th century, and mostly industrially pasteurised cow's milk today, according to the HÍR collection. It lists sheep, cow and goat versions.
The Sándor Tamás dairy at Mónosbél lists plain, clover and chive gomolya on its own site, marked as made to order. Vidéki Sajt at Ostoros also lists a gomolya.
About 0.3 kg: a roll 7 to 8 cm across wound from a ribbon 6 to 7 cm wide, according to the HÍR collection.
The name is Slovak, and Slovenská parenica has its own EU protected geographical indication. The HÍR collection records the cheese as a Hungarian speciality that small dairies began making after 1920.
Traditionally raw sheep's milk; today mostly cow's milk, according to the HÍR collection. The curd is kneaded in hot brine, rolled and smoked over sawdust.
Vidéki Sajt at Ostoros lists a smoked cow's milk parenyica on its own site and delivers in Eger and Ostoros; its contact page asks for a phone call before a visit.