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Whole cow milk, kept at no more than 12 °C and used within 60 hours of milking, is soured with the whey starter of the previous make and set with calf rennet (dolce) or kid or lamb paste rennet (piccante). The curd is cooked, left to acidify on tables, stretched in hot water and shaped by hand into salami, melon, cone or pear forms. The cheeses are brined, dried and hung to ripen for at least 10 days for small pieces and up to more than 8 months for large piccante ones.
Total time across the recorded steps: 49 days – 50 days
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What changes:Whole raw milk arrives cool, within 60 hours of milking
Step 1 of 9
Collect the milk
Time
up to 2.5 days
Set
Temperature
up to 12 °C
Set
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Whole milk from cows raised in the area, at its natural fermentation acidity. The 2018 amendment set the 12 °C limit so the milk keeps the lactic bacteria the acid-rennet make needs.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
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Colour
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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
Whole cow milk, kept at no more than 12 °C and used within 60 hours of milking, is soured with the whey starter of the previous make and set with calf rennet (dolce) or kid or lamb paste rennet (piccante). The curd is cooked, left to acidify on tables, stretched in hot water and shaped by hand into salami, melon, cone or pear forms. The cheeses are brined, dried and hung to ripen for at least 10 days for small pieces and up to more than 8 months for large piccante ones. Made in 9 steps over 49 days – 50 days. The longest step, brine, takes up to 30 days (Consorzio di Tutela Provolone Valpadana 2018).
A northern Italian provolone made in many shapes and sizes, soured with whey from the previous make. The rennet sets the type, calf for the mild dolce and kid or lamb paste for the sharp piccante.
Milk
Whole cow milk, kept at no more than 12 °C, used within 60 hours of milking; raw, thermised or pasteurised by type
Ripening
Dolce at most 2–3 months; piccante over 3 months; P.V.S. (piccante, over 30 kg) more than 8 months
Size
Salami, melon, truncated cone or pear shapes, 0.5 kg to more than 100 kg
Composition
Fat in dry matter 44–54%; moisture no more than 46% (dolce, and piccante up to 6 kg) or 43% (piccante over 6 kg)
Milk must stay at or below 12 °C. The specification starts from raw milk and heat is optional. Dolce milk may be pasteurised and piccante milk may be thermised, a milder heat than pasteurisation; small piccante cheeses that will not reach 60 days of ripening may also be pasteurised. Every cheese ripens at least 10 days before sale. Where the milk stays raw, ANSES advises pregnant women, young children, people over 65 and people with weak immunity not to eat raw-milk cheeses other than pressed cooked ones such as Gruyère, because of Listeria, Salmonella and Shiga-toxin E. coli.
The word provolone appears in 1871, when two cheesemakers from the south, the Margiotta brothers, moved north and began making hard stretched-curd cheese, later extending production thanks to the plentiful milk of the Po plain. The name was protected in Italy in 1955 and registered as an EU PDO in 1996.