Abstract: Hard cheese containing gelatin, as well as a method for making it, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of adding a starter culture to milk, ripening the milk, adding rennet, breaking the resulting coagel to curd, agitating the curd, drawing off whey and pressing the curd, either before or after the drawing-off of whey, and then shaping and ripening the curd. The method is distinguished by adding gelatin a) to the milk before the addition of rennet, or b) to the curd after the whey has been wholly or partly drawn off in the making of granular-eyed cheese.