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Fresh raw milk of Laticauda ewes is filtered, warmed to 35–40 °C and set with Laticauda lamb rennet. The small curd lumps are pressed with the fingers into moulds and brined. It is sold fresh after 2 days, semi-aged after 2 months, or aged 4–12 months, when the rind is washed with boiling whey and oiled once the cheese starts to sweat.
In a 2009 study of one raw-milk make, mesophilic lactococci already in the raw milk grew to about 10^8 CFU/g by the salted cheese (Proroga et al. 2009).
Total time across the recorded steps: 2 months – 12 months
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What changes:Laticauda lamb rennet sets the raw milk warmed to 35–40 °C
Step 1 of 5
Warm the milk and add lamb rennet
Time
Not documented
Temperature
35–40 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Output: curd.
Flavour
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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
Fresh raw milk of Laticauda ewes is filtered, warmed to 35–40 °C and set with Laticauda lamb rennet. The small curd lumps are pressed with the fingers into moulds and brined. It is sold fresh after 2 days, semi-aged after 2 months, or aged 4–12 months, when the rind is washed with boiling whey and oiled once the cheese starts to sweat. Made in 5 steps over 2 months – 12 months. The longest step, ripen, washing with whey and oiling, takes 2–12 months (Regione Campania 2015) and runs at 4–15 °C (ONAF (national organisation of cheese tasters)). Mesophilic lactococci, present in the raw milk and the most abundant technological group in one raw-milk make does most of the fermenting.
Made from the milk of the Laticauda, a Campanian breed with a broad fat tail, from chance crosses of a local Apennine sheep with the North African Barbary sheep brought into Campania under the Bourbons. The rind is washed with boiling whey and oiled, sometimes with chilli or a red pepper sauce.
Rind
Thin and soft when fresh, thicker, harder and oily when aged; straw to light brown, or red from a pepper sauce
A raw-milk cheese. The fresh version is sold after only 2 days; the aged cheese ripens 4–12 months. In a 2009 study of one raw-milk make, Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and Campylobacter were searched for and always absent. The authors report hygiene indicators absent from the finished cheese, but their table shows more. Two days into drying, E. coli averaged about 10^3.8 CFU/g, and coagulase-positive staphylococci were at 10^4 CFU/g in one batch. Both read zero at 101 days, while faecal enterococci stayed near 10^6 CFU/g. That was one farm and two batches, so it does not vouch for other cheeses. In a challenge study, E. coli O157 added to raw ewe milk was still detectable in pecorino after 90 days of ripening. ANSES, the French food safety agency, says Listeria and enterohaemorrhagic E. coli in raw-milk cheeses can kill. It advises pregnant women, people with weak immunity, people over 65 and young children to avoid raw-milk cheeses, except cooked pressed cheeses such as gruyère or comté; its page does not name pecorino.
Hazards the sources name: Coagulase-positive staphylococci, up to about 10^4.7 CFU/g in the first days of drying in a 2009 study of two raw-milk batches of this cheese; one batch still held 10^2.3 CFU/g at 71 days, and neither showed any at 101 days; Escherichia coli O157 in raw ewe milk; in a challenge study of pecorino made by other recipes it was still detectable after 90 days of ripening.
The Laticauda came from crosses between a local Apennine sheep and the Barbary sheep brought into Campania under the Bourbons; its name means broad tail. By the late 14th century Laticauda pecorini were known in the Fortore towns near Benevento.