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Zincarlin de Varées is a spreadable paste made by re-fermenting raw-milk goat cheeses, mostly soft lactic-set ones, with black pepper and sometimes dried garlic or parsley. The mix ripens for 20–60 days at 12–16 °C in open earthenware jars and is stirred often until it turns to a thick cream.
Total time across the recorded steps: 20 days – 2 months
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What changes:Soft goat cheeses are broken up and hard ones grated, rind removed
Step 1 of 4
Break and grate the cheeses
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Salt
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Acidity
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactobacillus
Output: broken soft cheese and grated hard cheese.
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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
Zincarlin de Varées is a spreadable paste made by re-fermenting raw-milk goat cheeses, mostly soft lactic-set ones, with black pepper and sometimes dried garlic or parsley. The mix ripens for 20–60 days at 12–16 °C in open earthenware jars and is stirred often until it turns to a thick cream. Made in 4 steps over 20 days – 2 months. The longest step, ferment in open jars, stirring often, takes 20 days – 2 months (Regione Lombardia) and runs at 12–16 °C (Regione Lombardia). In the related ricotta forte, a naturally fermented ricotta cheese (not studied in zincarlin itself): 33 Lactobacillus strains of 10 species does most of the fermenting.
The Varese member of the Insubrian Zincarlin family is made only from goat cheeses and has no shape of its own; the Como and Ossola zincarlin start from ricotta instead.
Como zincarlinMade from fat ricotta (maschèrpa) instead of goat cheeses.
Ticino zincarlinA drained lactic cow curd shaped like an upturned cup and sponged daily with white wine.
Safety
The sheets give the finished paste a pH of 5.2 and a moisture of 56%. The jar mouth is covered with gauze to keep insects out, and any liquid the paste gives off is removed. The ONAF sheet says sealed packs stay at room temperature and go in the refrigerator once opened, but no source gives a salt figure, water activity or heat step that would make a sealed pack safe at room temperature, so this page does not pass that on as an instruction. At pH 5.2 the acid does not stop botulism. The FDA's pathogen table puts the growth limit for proteolytic Clostridium botulinum at pH 4.6, the bacterium grows well with little oxygen (FDA), and the CDC lists canned cheese sauce among newer sources. Keep homemade zincarlin refrigerated, never sealed at room temperature. It is also made from raw-milk cheeses, and the CDC says raw-milk products can expose people to germs such as Listeria, Brucella and E. coli.
The PAT sheet describes zincarlin de Varées as a product from a time when a protein store had to be kept for winter, by recovering cheeses that had become too hard or too soft. Varese had no true alpine pastures, so cheesemaking stayed a family, subsistence affair even in summer; the small amounts of ricotta were eaten at home, while goat cheeses and mixed cheeses were more available, which the sheet gives as the reason for this product. The sheet notes that no zincarlin made from ricotta has been found in Varese.
Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.