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Raw cow milk is seeded with pingo and set with rennet. The curd is cut, warmed to 40 °C while stirred, drained and left 12–24 hours to ferment, then stretched and shaped by hand into a gourd. The cheeses are salted in brine and sold after about 7 days.
Total time across the recorded steps: 7.5 days – 8 days
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What changes:Fresh raw milk is filtered through synthetic cloth
Step 1 of 7
Filter the milk
Time
Not documented
Temperature
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Salt
None given
Acidity
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Flavour
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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
Raw cow milk is seeded with pingo and set with rennet. The curd is cut, warmed to 40 °C while stirred, drained and left 12–24 hours to ferment, then stretched and shaped by hand into a gourd. The cheeses are salted in brine and sold after about 7 days. Made in 7 steps over 7.5 days – 8 days. The longest step, ripen, takes 7 days (Souza B.R 2020). Salt is 20 % (Souza B.R 2020). Lactic acid bacteria of the fermented whey (pingo), higher in the rainy season does most of the fermenting.
Unlike the pressed Minas raw-milk cheeses, Cabacinha is a stretched-curd cheese. Its curd sours for up to a day before it is stretched and shaped into a gourd.
Shape
A gourd (cabaça), about 400 g in the model dairy
Class
Medium-moisture, fatty cheese
Producers
About 160 families make it, by an Emater-MG survey
The milk is raw, and the curd is warmed and stretched. A 2026 study of 30 producers found high Staphylococcus counts in whey starter, brine and cheese and E. coli in the whey starter, and called for good milking and manufacturing practice.
Hazards the sources name: Staphylococcus spp., found in high counts in fermented whey, brine and cheese; Escherichia coli in the fermented whey, higher in the rainy season, and coliforms after stretching in one cheese.
The state recognised the Vale do Jequitinhonha as a Cabacinha region in 2014. Production there dates from the mid-20th century, and a 2023 state law made the cheese part of Minas Gerais cultural heritage.