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Brick-shaped Goat’s Cheese
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250g

  • Appearance: A straw-yellow coloured and rectangular-shaped cheese.  It often has a white or cream-coloured, bloomy rind.
  • Type of cheese: It has a supple texture which becomes runny.
  • Taste and flavours: It generally has a soft, fruity taste and becomes more full-bodied with age.
  • Production: This soft cheese is matured using lactic fermentation and then coagulated quickly using a strong dose of rennet.  It is then salted and matured in a temperature controlled environment, known in French as an ‘haloir’.
  • Maturation period: 9 days.

Description / History/Origin

This cheese was originally adapted from a cow's milk cheese production method in Forez and is now produced across France, taking various different rectangular loaf forms.

More Information

This cheese is an excellent choice for a cheese board but can also be used in numerous recipes.

 

 

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An ideal goat's cheese board

from Rhone-Alps includes:

- Chevrotin
- Goat's cheese loaves
- Picodon
- Tomme de chèvre de Savoie

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- A pyramid or ‘Camembert-shaped’ goat’s cheese should be sliced in portions, like a tart: 

 

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