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Cow milk is soured with mostly mesophilic cultures, set with calf rennet at 32–38 °C, cut into cubes and drained in square moulds for at least 16 hours. After salting the cheeses rest and grow yeasts for two days, then ripen in humid brick cellars for at least 35 days, brushed or washed with salt water until the rind turns red-orange.
Dry salt, dry salt then brine, or brine alone[mar-cdc-2016]
Washing brine30 g salt per litre
Brine used to wash the rind in one study, with red-smear cultures[karamoko2024]
Starter
mostly mesophilic lactic cultures; ripening flora may be added to the milk
Total time across the recorded steps: 38 days
Start
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What changes:Cultures sour the milk a little, then calf rennet sets it
Step 1 of 5
Ripen the milk with cultures and add calf rennet
Time
Not documented
Temperature
32–38 °C
Set
Salt
None given
Acidity
pH 6.4–6.7
Set
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Yeasts
Geotrichum
Kluyveromyces
Output: coagulum.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
soft gel
Colour
white
Microbes at work in this step
mesophilic lactic bacteria sour the milk before it sets
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
Cow milk is soured with mostly mesophilic cultures, set with calf rennet at 32–38 °C, cut into cubes and drained in square moulds for at least 16 hours. After salting the cheeses rest and grow yeasts for two days, then ripen in humid brick cellars for at least 35 days, brushed or washed with salt water until the rind turns red-orange. Made in 5 steps over 38 days. The longest step, ripen in humid brick cellars, brushed or washed, takes at least 35 days (Ministère de l'agriculture 2015) and runs at 9–16 °C (Ministère de l'agriculture 2015). Mesophilic lactic acid bacteria and Brevibacterium linens do most of the fermenting.
Maroilles is square because its moulds were made from local hardwood that does not bend. Its curd is cut into cubes and partly drained, and removing milk sugar from it is banned. After salting it is given at least two days to grow yeasts, and then brushed or washed in humid brick cellars.
Milk
Cow milk only; raw, thermised or pasteurised
Ripening
At least 35 days from renneting (Maroilles); 28 days for Sorbais and Mignon, 21 for Quart
Size
PDO rules: 12.5–13 cm square moulds, at least 360 g of dry matter per cheese; at least 45 % fat in dry matter and 50 % dry matter
The specification allows raw, thermised or pasteurised cow milk, bans frozen storage of curd and fresh cheese, bans storage in modified atmosphere, and sets cellars at 9–16 °C and at least 90 % humidity. In a study of five artisanal cheeses the surface pH was 5.63–6.90 and the core pH 4.96–6.25 [mar-cdc-2016, karamoko2024]. Raw-milk cheese can carry Listeria and other germs, and CDC names pregnant women, adults over 65, children under 5 and people with weak immune systems as at higher risk of serious illness [cdc-raw-milk].
The specification ties the cheese to the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Humbert at Maroilles, founded in the 7th century; a medieval text sets what four nearby villages owed the abbey in grazing and cheese deliveries. The name appears as "Marolles" in Savary des Brûlons' trade dictionary of 1723, and it became an appellation by decree on 24 May 1976 [mar-cdc-2016].