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Gouda Holland PGI / Noord-Hollandse Gouda PDOGoudse kaas
Gouda is a semi-hard cheese from pasteurised Dutch cow milk, set with rennet and a mesophilic starter at about 30 °C. Part of the whey is replaced with warm water to wash the curd, which keeps the cheese mild; the curd is pressed in round moulds, brined for days and ripened in air on cheese boards, mostly traditional wooden ones, for at least four weeks.
mesophilic L-type or LD-type culture (Lactococcus, Leuconostoc)
Total time across the recorded steps: 34 days – 36 days
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What changes:Starting material: cow milk from Dutch farms, kept cold until the factory
Step 1 of 7
Cool and collect the milk
Time
up to 4 days
Set
Temperature
up to 6 °C
Set
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactococcus cremoris
Lactococcus lactis
Leuconostoc
Lactic acid bacteria
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
Gouda is a semi-hard cheese from pasteurised Dutch cow milk, set with rennet and a mesophilic starter at about 30 °C. Part of the whey is replaced with warm water to wash the curd, which keeps the cheese mild; the curd is pressed in round moulds, brined for days and ripened in air on cheese boards, mostly traditional wooden ones, for at least four weeks. Made in 7 steps over 34 days – 36 days. The longest step, ripen naturally on cheese boards, takes at least 28 days (Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)) and runs at at least 12 °C (Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO)). Lactococcus cremoris and Lactococcus lactis from the starter, the most abundant bacteria in the core up to 75 weeks and Leuconostoc do most of the fermenting.
Gouda is the model washed-curd cheese. Replacing part of the whey with water takes out lactose, so the cheese stays mild and does not turn sour. Gouda Holland must ripen in air on boards; foil-ripened Gouda, common elsewhere, cannot use the name.
Milk
Dutch farm milk cooled to 6 °C or less, at the dairy within 96 h, pasteurised at 72 °C or more for 15 s
Setting
About 30 °C with calf rennet, bovine pepsin or microbial rennet; mesophilic L or LD starter
Ripening
Natural ripening on cheese boards (mostly traditional wooden ones) at 12 °C or more for at least 28 days; foil ripening is excluded
Size
2.5–20 kg; fat in dry matter 48.0–52.0%; moisture at most 42.5% at day 12; salt in dry matter at most 4.0%
Noord-Hollandse Gouda PDOMilk from the province of Noord-Holland only. The 1994 application set: thermised within 12 h, renneted at 31–34 °C, pH above 5.25 at 14 days, average 3.3% salt in dry matter, ripened 4 weeks to 18 months at 14 °C or more
AgesYoung (jong) to mature (belegen), and older than a year; the PGI sets only the minimum of 28 days
Safety
Gouda Holland is made from pasteurised milk and has at most 2 mg nitrite per kg. Raw-milk farmhouse Gouda is a separate cheese, Boerenkaas, with its own traditional-speciality dossier.
The Gouda Holland PGI dossier ties Dutch cheese to the wet, mild coastal lowlands. A 1533 gable stone in Hoorn shows a maker of wooden cheese moulds, and the dossier dates the official state cheese mark to 1913. The Noord-Hollandse Gouda PDO application of 1994 adds that Gouda has been made on dairy farms for centuries and in factories since about 1900, and that its quality rules were laid down on the basis of the 1911 Patent and Trade Mark Act for Cheese.