Fromage Fort

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      20 min

Appears in
Les Dames d'Escoffier New York Cookbook: Stirring the Pot

By Silvia Baldini and Sharon Franke

Published 2023

  • About

French women are fundamentally frugal. So, when there’s leftover cheese, they accumulate the odd bits to make a Fromage Fort, meaning “strong cheese.” This is basically a cheese spread made more interesting with the addition of wine, sweet butter and shallots or garlic. As the combination changes, determined by the selection of leftover cheeses, the result is always something different. Spread on crackers or slices of baguettes or even piped on halved cherry tomatoes, Fromage Fort will surp