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Cheese from Italy, Lombardia

Cadolet di capra

Raw whole goat milk from two milkings is warmed to 32 °C for about 30 minutes, given lactic cultures and rennet, and sets in about 30 minutes. The curd is cut in a cross, moulded, turned three times over 12 hours and brined 2 hours per kilo. The small square cheese ripens about 30 days and soon grows a short white mould, later overlaid with grey.

Fully documentedCheese31 daysTraditional food product (PAT, Lombardia)Family: Bloomy-rind soft cheese family (Camembert de Normandie as template)

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedThe regional sheet gives temperatures and times but no batch size or doses. Each cheese weighs about 300 g.
Raw whole goat milk from two milkingsOne milking kept in the fridge, the other used freshly drawn; made in the lactation period, when the goats feed on wild herbs[pat-sheet][onaf]
Lactic cultures[pat-sheet]
Calf rennet[onaf]
Salt, as brine[pat-sheet]
Starterlactic cultures are added to the warmed milk

Total time across the recorded steps: 31 days

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32 °C

What changes: The goat milk warms to 32 °C and lactic cultures and rennet go in

Step 1 of 6
Warm the milk and add cultures and rennet
Time
30 min
Reported
Temperature
32 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

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

Raw whole goat milk from two milkings is warmed to 32 °C for about 30 minutes, given lactic cultures and rennet, and sets in about 30 minutes. The curd is cut in a cross, moulded, turned three times over 12 hours and brined 2 hours per kilo. The small square cheese ripens about 30 days and soon grows a short white mould, later overlaid with grey. Made in 6 steps over 31 days. The longest step, ripen with a bloomy rind, takes 30 days (Regione Lombardia).

Key numbers
Main step30 daysReported[pat-sheet]Ripen with a bloomy rind
Temperature32 °CReported[pat-sheet]Warm the milk and add cultures and rennet

What makes this one different

A raw-milk goat cheese of the Val Camonica with a mould rind, made square for speed. It is often mistaken for the square goat robiolina.

Size
Square base 8–9 cm a side (sometimes triangular), 3–5 cm high, about 300 g
Output
About 100 quintals a year

Related ferments

Safety

Made from raw goat milk and eaten after about 30 days, so it is a young raw-milk cheese. Keep it cold. ANSES, the French food safety agency, names Listeria, Salmonella and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli as the main hazards of raw-milk cheeses. It advises pregnant women, people over 65, people with weak immunity and young children not to eat raw-milk cheeses, except cooked pressed ones such as Comté.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

The Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica's 2014 guide to the valley's cheeses lists Cadolet among the goat cheeses of two farms, Paros of Manenti Manuel in Angolo Terme and San Faustino of Bonomi Valentino in Ceto, both making it all year; the San Faustino farm names it as a typical product. Production is small, about 100 quintals a year, and runs through the whole lactation. The regional sheet says the lack of a clear identity, since it is confused with the goat robiolina, holds back its growth.

Microbes
No study we found names its microbes.
  1. [pat-sheet] Regione Lombardia, traditional product sheet 'Cadolet di capra' (copy hosted by ONAF)gov
  2. [onaf] ONAF (national organisation of cheese tasters), cheese card 'Cadolet di capra' (id 907)web
  3. [cmvc2014] Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica 2014, I formaggi nella cultura casearia di Valle Camonica (Sapori di Valle Camonica, 2nd edition), producers' tablesgov
  4. [anses2022] ANSES 2022, Fromages au lait cru, quels risques pour la santé et comment mieux les prévenir (8 April 2022)gov