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Raw cow milk, whole or with the first milking skimmed by hand, is warmed to 34–36 °C and set with liquid calf rennet. The curd is broken gently, then heated to 40–42 °C while it is broken to hazelnut size, and packed into small moulds. It is dry-salted and ripened 25–30 days, or up to 60 days for an aged cheese.
Total time across the recorded steps: 25 days – 2 months
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What changes:Starting material: raw cow milk, sometimes with the cream skimmed off one milking
Step 1 of 7
Collect and skim the milk
Time
Not documented
Temperature
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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The milk of the first milking may be skimmed by hand; tradition uses whole milk of one milking. Output: raw cow milk, whole or part-skimmed.
Flavour
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Texture
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Colour
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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 cow milk, whole or with the first milking skimmed by hand, is warmed to 34–36 °C and set with liquid calf rennet. The curd is broken gently, then heated to 40–42 °C while it is broken to hazelnut size, and packed into small moulds. It is dry-salted and ripened 25–30 days, or up to 60 days for an aged cheese. Made in 7 steps over 25 days – 2 months. The longest step, ripen, takes 25 days – 2 months (Regione Lombardia 2008).
Formagela means "little cheese" in the local dialect. It is a small, semi-cooked, dry-salted wheel of raw milk, eaten at one or two months, while the valley's Branzi is a larger mountain cheese.
Rind
Thin, smooth, ivory to straw, darker with age
Size
Cylinder 18–22 cm across with a convex 5–8 cm side; 1.5–2 kg
Made from raw milk and ripened only 25–60 days. The sheet notes that a sour taste can come from making faults. ANSES names Listeria, Salmonella and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli as the main raw-milk cheese hazards. 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.
Hazards the sources name: Staphylococcus aureus and its enterotoxins, not measured in this cheese. In a survey of 123 raw or thermised milk Alpine cheeses, including Formagella and cheeses from Bergamo, S. aureus was not detected in 52 % of samples taken before ripening, and two semi-hard cheeses with a top heat of 37–43.6 °C held enterotoxin.
Val Brembana cheeses were known as far as Venice. In the 1600s the Venetian governor Alvise Priuli had a road built through the valley to the Valtellina, around the Duchy of Milan's tolls, and the trade it brought helped the valley.
Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.