The Finnish Cheese That’s Baked Like Bread and Dunked in Coffee
At the Dane County Farmers Market around the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find a lot of local cheese, as you can imagine. One of them is a bit of a delicious spectacle: Brunkow Cheese draws a crowd around a large vendor tent, where folks line up, toothpicks in hand, to skewer samples of an unusual Finnish variety of cheese: juustoleipa (pronounced YOO-sto-LAY-pah). The cheese-stabbing masses huddled around the Brunkow Cheese tent at the Dane County Farmers Market. (Kevin Revolinski)
This firm, half-inch-thick slab has brown spots on it from baking. The vendors cut up their “Brun-Uusto” and its flavored varieties for samples, dump the cubes on a large griddle to fry, and move them to sample trays when they’ve browned enough. Cue the cheese-stabbing masses.
By Adam Duxter
Apr 2, 2021 9:49 PM
MADISON, Wis. – Despite Public Health Madison Dane County’s latest health order lifting limits and mask requirements for outdoor gatherings, some local traditions and events could still be months away.
“What we want is a smart restart, a slow reopening,” said Tiffany Kenney, Executive Director of the Madison Central Business Improvement District. “We know those organizers, when they’re ready, they can have safe events, they’ll bring them back. This order just helps them along the way making those decisions.”
Kenney says one hold up for events like the Dane County Farmers Market and outdoor concerts is a lack of permit, which it could take another two weeks to obtain.
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Chris and Loriâs Bakehouse in Poynette got a little creative in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The owners, Chris and Lori Robson, knew a change had to be made in some of its operations this past year upon hearing that the Dane County Farmers Market was not going to begin on schedule.
âAfter it became clear that the pandemic would keep the Dane County Farmerâs Market â our main source of income â from beginning in April as usual, we knew we would have to get creative this year,â Lori said.
Some of that creativity involved four pop-up markets in the parking lot of the Poynette shop, located at 110 W. Mill Street â across the road from Poynette Inch United Methodist Church. The small pop-up stands were held during the summer and fall months.