sapsago

American  

[sap-sey-goh, sap-suh-goh] / sæpˈseɪ goʊ, ˈsæp səˌgoʊ /

noun

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

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sapsago British  

/ ˈsæpsəˌɡəʊ /

noun

1. a hard greenish Swiss cheese made with sour skimmed milk and coloured and flavoured with clover

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Etymology

Origin of sapsago

1840–50, alteration of German Schabziger, Schabzieger, equivalent to schab ( en ) to grate + Zi ( e ) ger a kind of cheese

Example Sentences

Sapsago, sap′sā-gō, n. a greenish Swiss cheese.

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Apple pie au gratin, thickly grated over with Parmesan, Caciocavallo or Sapsago, is something special when served with black coffee.

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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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Good when overlaid with cheese butter of contrasting piquance, say one mixed with Sapsago.

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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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