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Cheese from Italy, Lombardia

Formaggella di TremosineFormaela

Whole cow milk is pasteurised at 72 °C for 30 seconds, cooled to 36 °C, inoculated with freeze-dried cultures and set with rennet in about 25 minutes. The curd is broken to maize-grain size while it is heated to 40 °C, moulded for a day, brined for a day and ripened for at least 40 days in rooms with selected moulds.

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedMade by one cooperative dairy, Alpe del Garda; the sheets give no amounts. A cheese is 16–18 cm across, 5–7 cm high and weighs 1.4–1.8 kg.
Whole cow milkPasteurised; ONAF says tradition uses only freshly collected milk[lom-tremosine][onaf-tremosine]
Freeze-dried culturesThermophilic and mesophilic lactic bacteria and lactobacilli[lom-tremosine][onaf-tremosine]
Liquid rennetCalf rennet, according to ONAF[lom-tremosine][onaf-tremosine]
SaltAs a brine[lom-tremosine]
Starterfreeze-dried thermophilic and mesophilic cultures and lactobacilli

Total time across the recorded steps: 42 days

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72 °C

What changes: The whole milk is pasteurised at 72 °C, then cooled to 36 °C

Step 1 of 6
Pasteurise and cool the milk
Time
0.5 min
Reported
Temperature
72 °C → 36 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Lactobacilli
Moulds

Output: pasteurised whole milk at 36 °C.

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 pasteurised at 72 °C for 30 seconds, cooled to 36 °C, inoculated with freeze-dried cultures and set with rennet in about 25 minutes. The curd is broken to maize-grain size while it is heated to 40 °C, moulded for a day, brined for a day and ripened for at least 40 days in rooms with selected moulds. Made in 6 steps over 42 days. The longest step, ripen with selected moulds, takes at least 40 days (Regione Lombardia). Added thermophilic and mesophilic lactic bacteria and lactobacilli and Selected moulds in the ripening rooms do most of the fermenting.

Key numbers
Main stepat least 40 daysReported[lom-tremosine]Ripen with selected moulds
Temperature72 °C → 36 °CReported[lom-tremosine]Pasteurise and cool the milk

What makes this one different

Made by a single cooperative dairy from pasteurised milk with three kinds of added culture, and ripened at least 40 days in rooms with selected moulds. The Tremosine cross on one face marks it.

Rind
Thin, fairly smooth, straw
Size
16–18 cm across, 5–7 cm high, 1.4–1.8 kg
Mark
"FORMAGELLA TREMOSINE" and the Tremosine cross pressed into one face

Related ferments

Variants

  • Flavoured versionsThe dairy also makes it with wild garlic, ground black truffle, olives, chilli and pepper, or plum (Comune di Tremosine sul Garda).
  • SmokedAged first, then smoked (Comune di Tremosine sul Garda).

Safety

Made from milk pasteurised at 72 °C for 30 seconds and ripened at least 40 days.

History and sources

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

The Alpe del Garda cooperative dairy was founded in 1980 on the Tremosine plateau to keep the area's mountain cheeses in production.

  1. [lom-tremosine] Regione Lombardia, prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali, sheet 'Formaggella Tremosine' (copy hosted by ONAF)gov
  2. [tremosine-comune] Comune di Tremosine sul Garda, tourism site, 'La Formagella di Tremosine'gov
  3. [onaf-tremosine] ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi), technical sheet 'Formaggella Tremosine' (PAT Lombardia)web