"Cuajada" (Milk curd)

Cuajada (milk curd) is a cheese product. Traditionally it is made from ewe's milk, but now it is more often made industrially from cow's milk. It is popular in the northern regions of Spain (Asturias, Basque Country, Navarre, Castilla y León, La Rioja). Cuajada is usually served as dessert with honey and walnuts or sometimes sugar, and, less often, for breakfast with fruit or honey. Raw warmed milk is mixed with rennet or with plant extracts and left to curdle. It was traditionally made in a wooden recipient called a kaiku and heated with a red-hot poker, giving it a distinct faintly burned taste. Cuajada means 'curdled' in Spanish.