Friday, 28 April 2017

Robiola, the cheese with worms

Variant of the previous for naming only is this "formaggella" feature of Piacenza Apennines always and known in its variant (now banned by the EU) as "cheese with worms".


Ingredients: Sheep's milk

Preparation: formaggella fresh sheep (can use the cacio cheese, provolone, caciottine, pecorino or grana) whipped with milk, sugar, dry white wine, brandy or cognac, put into glass jars, covered with oil and held to season until it becomes hot flavour.
The variant with the "worms" which included the final appearance of the white worms said "saltarei" that serve to give the cheese that softness and that spicy.  The production on a commercial scale as we have said is forbidden, but is still privately prepared as was in the Middle Ages, when it was produced in our province "Casum Placentinum" or parmesan cheese, and if some form could not matured or bad, was re-used to make this Robiola.

Area of production: Apennine valleys of the province of Piacenza.

Source: http://www.tipicopiace.it

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