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Cheese from Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia

Formaggio caprino morbidojama morbido

A fresh, acid-set goat cheese shaped into logs. Goat milk, raw or heat-treated, gets selected cultures and sets slowly for 24 hours at 20 °C. The curd drains in jute bags for about a day, then is worked, salted and sometimes mixed with local herbs.

Fully documentedCheese2 daysPAT (Friuli Venezia Giulia)Family: Fresh lactic (acid-set) cheese family

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedThe sheets give no amounts. Each log is about 4–5 cm across and 10–12 cm long; ONAF gives 0.2–0.5 kg.
Whole goat milkRaw, thermised or pasteurised[ersa-caprino][onaf-caprino]
Selected cultures[ersa-caprino][onaf-caprino]
Salt[ersa-caprino]
Local herbsoptionalKneaded into the paste[ersa-caprino]
Starterselected cultures

Total time across the recorded steps: 2 days

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What changes: Starting material: whole goat milk, raw or heat-treated

Step 1 of 4
Prepare the milk
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

Raw, or heat-treated by thermising or pasteurising. Output: whole goat 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

A fresh, acid-set goat cheese shaped into logs. Goat milk, raw or heat-treated, gets selected cultures and sets slowly for 24 hours at 20 °C. The curd drains in jute bags for about a day, then is worked, salted and sometimes mixed with local herbs. Made in 4 steps over 2 days. The longest step, sour slowly with cultures, takes 24 h (ERSA (Agenzia regionale per lo sviluppo rural…) and runs at 20 °C (ERSA (Agenzia regionale per lo sviluppo rural…).

Key numbers
Main step24 hReported[ersa-caprino]Sour slowly with cultures
Temperature20 °CReported[ersa-caprino]Sour slowly with cultures

What makes this one different

Set by acid at 20 °C over a whole day and drained in jute bags. It is eaten fresh, with no ripening.

Rind
None
Size
Log 4–5 cm across, 10–12 cm long; 0.2–0.5 kg (ONAF)
Season
November to August (ONAF)

Related ferments

Variants

  • Con erbe aromaticheLocal herbs kneaded into the paste.

Safety

Fresh cheese that may be made from raw milk and is not ripened. ANSES advises pregnant women, people over 65, people with weak immunity and young children to avoid raw-milk cheeses.

History and sources

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

ERSA says goats have been kept in the region for centuries, but pure goat cheese was a family or small-farm product because goat milk was often made into cheese with cow milk at the mountain dairies. The sheet names the Zaro farm at Pian delle Farcadizze (Faedis), where this production began 30 years before the page was saved in 2017.

Microbes
No study we found names its microbes.
  1. [ersa-caprino] ERSA (Agenzia regionale per lo sviluppo rurale, Friuli Venezia Giulia), prodotti tradizionali, 'Formaggio caprino morbido' (page saved 19/8/2017, copy hosted by ONAF)gov
  2. [onaf-caprino] ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi), technical sheet 'Formaggio caprino morbido' (PAT Friuli Venezia Giulia)web
  3. [anses2022] ANSES 2022, Fromages au lait cru, quels risques pour la santé et comment mieux les prévenir (8 April 2022)gov