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Cheese from Italy, Piemonte

Cevrin di Coazze

Cow milk mixed with at least 40 % goat milk, raw or thermised, is set with calf rennet at 35–38 °C in about an hour. The curd is broken to rice size, left in moulds at 20 °C or more for a day, dry-salted and ripened at least 80–90 days on wooden boards. The rind is washed often, so moulds ripen the cheese from the outside in.

Fully documentedCheese2.7 months – 3 monthsPAT (traditional food product, Piemonte)Family: Uncooked or semi-cooked pressed cheese family (tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Reblochon, Morbier, Raclette)

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedGoat milk at least 40 %, cow milk at most 60 %. The sheet gives no batch size; a cheese weighs 0.8–1.5 kg.
Goat milk, at least 40 %[pat-cevrin][onaf-cevrin]
Cow milk, up to 60 %One or two milkings, the second kept chilled; mostly from animals at pasture[pat-cevrin][onaf-cevrin]
Calf rennetKid rennet may be used; dosed to set in about 60 minutes[pat-cevrin][onaf-cevrin]
SaltDry salt[pat-cevrin][onaf-cevrin]

Total time across the recorded steps: 2.7 months – 3 months

Start
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What changes: Starting material: cow milk mixed with at least 40 % goat milk

Step 1 of 6
Mix the cow and goat milk
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Moulds

At least 40 % goat milk; the mix is used raw or thermised. Made mostly from March to November, when the animals graze. Output: mixed raw or thermised milk.

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

Cow milk mixed with at least 40 % goat milk, raw or thermised, is set with calf rennet at 35–38 °C in about an hour. The curd is broken to rice size, left in moulds at 20 °C or more for a day, dry-salted and ripened at least 80–90 days on wooden boards. The rind is washed often, so moulds ripen the cheese from the outside in. Made in 6 steps over 2.7 months – 3 months. The longest step, ripen and wash the rind, takes 2.6–3 months (Regione Piemonte 2015).

Key numbers
Main step2.6–3 monthsReported[pat-cevrin][onaf-cevrin]Ripen and wash the rind
Temperature35–38 °CReported[pat-cevrin][onaf-cevrin]Set with calf rennet

What makes this one different

It must hold at least 40 % goat milk, is drained warm without pressing, and has its rind washed so moulds ripen it from the outside in. That is why the paste melts under the rind while the centre stays firm.

Rind
Washed, hard, slightly irregular, a few moulds; reddish to dark brown
Size
0.8–1.5 kg; cylinder ø 15–18 cm, side 6–9 cm

Related ferments

Safety

The milk may be raw. The regional sheet sees no risks beyond those of normal cheesemaking. ANSES advises pregnant women, people over 65, people with weak immunity and young children to avoid raw-milk cheeses.

Hazards the sources name: Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli, the main hazards ANSES names for raw-milk cheeses.

History and sources

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

ONAF says the Piedmontese name Cevrin or Ciavrin means goat cheese, and that the small tomette of Coazze were sold on the Turin markets in past centuries and were well liked. It adds that between the 1920s and 1930s and the first years after the war, people from Turin went to the Val Sangone for a merenda sinoira, and Cevrin was always on the table.

Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.
  1. [pat-cevrin] Regione Piemonte, Schede tecniche prodotti PAT 2015, D.D. 24 July 2015 n. 460 (BU38S1, 24 September 2015), Category D product 10 'Cevrin di Coazze' (copy hosted by ONAF)gov
  2. [onaf-cevrin] ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi), technical sheet 'Cevrin di Coazze', PAT Regione Piemonteweb
  3. [onaf] ONAF, scheda formaggio 'Cevrin di Coazze' (id 453)web
  4. [anses2022] ANSES 2022, Fromages au lait cru, quels risques pour la santé et comment mieux les prévenir (8 April 2022)gov