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A soft, square ewe-milk cheese set with a coagulant soaked from dried thistle or artichoke flowers, the method Columella describes. Raw whole milk is set at 38 °C in about an hour, broken twice to chickpea size and drained a day in square baskets without pressing. It is salted dry for 12 hours and ripened 40–60 days at 7–10 °C.
Total time across the recorded steps: 43 days – 2.1 months
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What changes:Starting material: raw ewe milk, filtered through cloth
Step 1 of 7
Filter the raw milk
Time
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Salt
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactococcus lactis
Filtered through cloth; not heat-treated. Output: raw whole ewe milk.
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Microbes at work in this step
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Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
A soft, square ewe-milk cheese set with a coagulant soaked from dried thistle or artichoke flowers, the method Columella describes. Raw whole milk is set at 38 °C in about an hour, broken twice to chickpea size and drained a day in square baskets without pressing. It is salted dry for 12 hours and ripened 40–60 days at 7–10 °C. Made in 7 steps over 43 days – 2.1 months. The longest step, ripen in a cool, humid cell, takes 40 days – 2 months (ARSIAL (Regione Lazio) 2018) and runs at 7–10 °C (ARSIAL (Regione Lazio) 2018). Lactococcus lactis dominated the bacteria during fermentation and maturation of Caciofiore made with thistle coagulant at a family dairy in the Marche region does most of the fermenting.
It is set with a thistle-flower coagulant instead of animal rennet, a method taken from Columella's first-century farming manual, and it is drained without pressing into soft square blocks.
Season
Made from November to June; in summer the flocks move to the Abruzzo mountains (ONAF sheet)
Size
0.4–1 kg; square block with sides of 10–15 cm and a convex side of about 5 cm
Made from raw milk and ripened 40–60 days. ANSES advises pregnant women, people over 65, young children and people with weak immunity not to eat raw-milk cheese. Ripening may not remove the risk. The US FDA says even 60 days may not eliminate or adequately reduce E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella in raw-milk cheese, and Listeria may grow in some cheeses during ageing.
Hazards the sources name: Escherichia coli, found in the raw milk and counted in Caciofiore made at a Marche family dairy, at levels that differed between two production rounds (a related cheese; Rampanti 2023).
Columella, writing about 50 AD in De Re Rustica, says milk can be curdled with wild thistle flowers as well as with lamb or kid rennet. Dairies around Rome revived the cheese from that text, and Slow Food supports producers who use cultivated thistle.