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Cheese from Italy, Lombardia

Garda Tremosine

Milk of Brown Alpine cows only, the evening milking skimmed, is pasteurised at 72 °C for 30 seconds, cooled to about 35 °C and set with lactic cultures and powdered calf rennet in about 25 minutes. The curd is broken to rice-grain size while heated to 46 °C, rests 40 minutes under the whey, is pressed in marking hoops and brined about 4 days. It ripens about a year, oiled and turned.

Fully documentedCheese12 months – 2 yearsTraditional food product (PAT, Regione Lombardia); voluntary breed certificationFamily: Cooked hard alpine cheese family (Comté, Gruyère and Emmentaler as templates)

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedThe sheets name the Caseificio Sociale Alpe del Garda as the dairy that recently promoted the cheese, and give no batch size or doses. A wheel weighs 7–8 kg.
Cow milk of Brown Alpine cows only, from two milkingsFat-adjusted; evening milk skimmed by centrifuge, morning milk whole[pat-sheet][onaf-sheet]
Lactic cultures[pat-sheet]
Powdered calf rennet[pat-sheet][onaf-sheet]
Salt, as brine[pat-sheet]
Refined linseed oilFor oiling the rind during ripening[onaf-sheet]
Starterlactic cultures

Total time across the recorded steps: 12 months – 2 years

Start
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72 °C

What changes: The part-skimmed milk is heated to 72 °C for 30 seconds

Step 1 of 6
Pasteurise the milk
Time
0.5 min
Reported
Temperature
72 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
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

Milk of Brown Alpine cows only, the evening milking skimmed, is pasteurised at 72 °C for 30 seconds, cooled to about 35 °C and set with lactic cultures and powdered calf rennet in about 25 minutes. The curd is broken to rice-grain size while heated to 46 °C, rests 40 minutes under the whey, is pressed in marking hoops and brined about 4 days. It ripens about a year, oiled and turned. Made in 6 steps over 12 months – 2 years. The longest step, ripen, oiled and turned, takes 12 months – 2 years (Regione Lombardia).

Key numbers
Main step12 months – 2 yearsReported[pat-sheet][onaf-sheet]Ripen, oiled and turned
Temperature72 °CReported[pat-sheet]Pasteurise the milk

What makes this one different

A semi-cooked, pressed grating-type cheese made only from Brown Alpine milk, cooked to 46 °C, ripened a year or more, and traceable by a batch number on every wheel.

Rind
Thick, hard, oiled with refined linseed oil, dark straw to brown; not edible
Size
Cylinder 30–32 cm across, side 9–10 cm, 7–8 kg
Milk
Brown Alpine cows only, attested by a voluntary breed certification

Related ferments

Safety

The milk is pasteurised at 72 °C for 30 seconds, and every wheel carries a batch number that links to its make record.

History and sources

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

Made in the village dairies of Tremosine since the early 1900s and recently promoted by the Caseificio Sociale Alpe del Garda, founded in 1980 at about 700 m above sea level.

Microbes
No study we found names its microbes.
  1. [pat-sheet] Regione Lombardia, Prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali, scheda 'Garda Tremosine' (copy hosted by ONAF)gov
  2. [onaf-sheet] ONAF (Organizzazione Nazionale Assaggiatori Formaggi), technical sheet 'Garda Tremosine'web
  3. [onaf] ONAF, cheese page 'Garda Tremosine' (id 1007)web