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Cheese from Italy, Lombardia

Formaggella della Val Trompia

Whole cow milk is thermised slowly at 62 °C for 30 minutes, cultured with lactic bacteria and set with calf rennet at 35–38 °C. The curd is broken to hazelnut size without cooking, moulded, dry-salted and dried on wooden shelves for 20–25 days into a small soft cheese.

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedNeither sheet gives amounts. One cheese is 20–25 cm across, about 4 cm high and weighs 1.8–2 kg.
Whole cow milkThermised at 62 °C for 30 minutes[lom-trompia][onaf-trompia][onaf-page]
Lactic bacteria culture[lom-trompia][onaf-trompia]
Liquid calf rennet[onaf-trompia]
SaltDry salt[lom-trompia]
Starterlactic bacteria culture

Total time across the recorded steps: 20 days – 25 days

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62 °C

What changes: The whole milk is held at 62 °C for half an hour

Step 1 of 6
Thermise the milk
Time
30 min
Reported
Temperature
62 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

Output: thermised whole 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

Whole cow milk is thermised slowly at 62 °C for 30 minutes, cultured with lactic bacteria and set with calf rennet at 35–38 °C. The curd is broken to hazelnut size without cooking, moulded, dry-salted and dried on wooden shelves for 20–25 days into a small soft cheese. Made in 6 steps over 20 days – 25 days. The longest step, dry and ripen, takes 20–25 days (Regione Lombardia).

Key numbers
Main step20–25 daysReported[lom-trompia][onaf-page]Dry and ripen
Temperature62 °CReported[lom-trompia]Thermise the milk

What makes this one different

The milk is thermised, which the regional sheet calls a rather slow pasteurisation, not used raw as in the Val Seriana and Val Camonica formaggelle, and the curd is not cooked at all. The cheese is wide and thin and is eaten after about three weeks.

Season
All year (ONAF)
Rind
Thin, smooth, straw yellow
Size
20–25 cm across, about 4 cm high, 1.8–2.0 kg

Related ferments

Safety

The milk is thermised at 62 °C for 30 minutes, which the regional sheet calls a rather slow pasteurisation, and the cheese is eaten after only 20–25 days.

History and sources

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

The regional sheet says a survey of dairy products ordered by Ferdinand I of Austria, a few years before the Jacini farm inquiry, already found plenty of butter, formaggelle and stracchini.

Microbes
No study we found names its microbes.
  1. [lom-trompia] Regione Lombardia, prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali, sheet 'Formaggella della Val Trompia' (copy hosted by ONAF)gov
  2. [onaf-trompia] ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi), technical sheet 'Formaggella della Val Trompia' (PAT Lombardia)web
  3. [onaf-page] ONAF, cheese page 'Formaggella della Val Trompia' (id 995)web