DCHP-3

Oka (cheese)

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a kind of cheese cured by painting with brine, made by the Trappist monks of Oka, Quebec.

Quotations

1936
The Oka cheeses are given their peculiar flavour in the process of curing.
1964
Oka and Ermite are also typically Canadian cheeses.