Boxholm cheese, which is sold in packages that look very much like the water tower above, is this industrial town’s Swedish claim to fame. Found throughout Sweden, Boxholm cheese is typically eaten by scrapping thin slices off the top with an “osthyvel“. Usually at breakfast with bread or more often “knackebrod“, Boxholm, in southern Sweden, has been producing this cheese since 1890. Boxholm cheese is soft, without a strong flavor or smell, slightly reminiscent of dry mozzarella.
Finding this water tower is just about impossible in Boxholm, a tiny place with around 3,000 inhabitants. Those of you driving through the town with a soft spot for hamburgers should check out the Sibylla fast food restaurant directly across the the tower which makes excellent greasy burgers and mashed potatoes with a Swedish touch.
mmmmm, I love both the Boxholm cheese and the Hamburger at Sibylla or their hot dog with mashed potatoes. I am getting the cravings right now and wish I could go!
In my dreams that water tower is made of Boxholm cheese…
It does look like a Boxholmsost! *giggles*
As I tweeted: With yummy recipes: http://bit.ly/d4oGTs – we’ve made the Hot Soup with the Grasloksost several times – it contains white chocolate 😛
Thanks for adding to my list of Boxholm cheese possibilities! That water tower makes me want to run up to the side with a osthyvel and taste some. Ok, well, maybe in my dreams…
hur har du hittat den här goda osten???!!! Haha
kram ifran Ann-Louise
haha, I am vaguely familiar with it 😉
I stayed with good friends in Sweden for a week in their house. Buying some stuff for dinner, I started cutting cheese with a knife to be told of this fabulous implement and that using a knife was extremely poor form and showing low class. Along with their horror that I’d put milk on cereal, rather than a special yoghurt, it highlights the wonderful and subtle cultural differences between places. An osthyvel was my Swedish “souvenir” and it is still used at home here in Australia (but I still put milk on cereal – the yoghurt stuff wasn’t very nice at all!!!).
I’m not a fan of the yogurt on cereal either but love the osthyvel which seems so practical – except that I tend to scrap way more cheese off that the Swedes usually do 🙂
Thanks for the introduction to Boxholm cheese. Now to travel to Sweden for a taste.
Don’t think you’ll be disappointed 🙂