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Whey left over from rennet cheese is heated until its proteins clump into soft flakes. The flakes are ladled into moulds and drained. This is a heat-set cheese, not a microbial ferment. Salted and aged forms exist, such as ricotta salata and aged brocciu (passu).
Fully documentedCheese10 days – 11 days
Recipe
Amounts from a sourceNo single recipe covers the family. The amounts are those of the Brocciu corse specification, with Manouri noted where it differs. Sardinian industrial ricotta plants use open kettles of 1200–1500 L.
Fresh whey from rennet-set sheep or goat cheese
Brocciu uses it within 2 h of making the cheese, at pH 6.20 or higher[cdc-broc2015]
Raw whole sheep or goat milkUp to 25 % of the whey volume
none; the cheese is set by heat, which inactivates the whey's natural microflora
Total time across the recorded steps: 10 days – 11 days
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What changes:Starting material: fresh sweet whey from rennet cheese
Step 1 of 5
Collect and warm the fresh whey
Time
up to 2 h
Set
Temperature
60–70 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
pH at least 6.2
Set
The whey must be from rennet-set curd. Brocciu does not allow frozen or powdered whey. Output: warm whey.
Flavour
sweet, milky
Texture
thin liquid
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
the whey's natural microflora, which the later heating inactivates; no starter culture is added
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
Whey left over from rennet cheese is heated until its proteins clump into soft flakes. The flakes are ladled into moulds and drained. This is a heat-set cheese, not a microbial ferment. Salted and aged forms exist, such as ricotta salata and aged brocciu (passu). Made in 5 steps over 10 days – 11 days. The longest step, chill, or salt and age, takes at least 10 days (Casti D 2016) and runs at 4–12 °C (Greek Ministry of Agriculture 1994). Salt is 0.5–1 % (Ministère de l'agriculture 2013).
The curd comes from the whey, not from the milk. Heat, not rennet or acid-forming bacteria, sets it. The cheese is therefore soft, and low in fat unless milk or cream is added.
A whey ricotta drained in a stocking-shaped cloth (calza), then wrapped and aged. It is set by acid and heat, not by microbes; the aged forms grow a bloomy rind.
Rind
Bloomy on aged forms
Size
Elongated truncated cone of 3.0–5.0 kg, or ovoid of 0.150 kg
Ricotta calda con siero is a ricotta of the province of Rieti that Lazio added to Italy's list of traditional food products in 2026. ARSIAL's February 2026 press release names it among 28 new entries. We found no technical sheet or description of how it is made.
A Walser spiced ricotta from the Lys valley; the old kind was pressed into balls and dried in the chimney hood to keep, while today it is mostly eaten fresh.
Aosta's whey cheese, the last dairy product made in the cheese chain, set with a little citric acid at 80–90 °C. Kneaded with garlic, oil, salt and spices it becomes Salignoùn.
Size
da 0,2 a 3 kgReported
Rind
None (fresh) or fairly hard, brown or reddish (smoked)
Ricotta salata has high moisture and a high pH (6.1 to 6.9), and Casti and colleagues call it very susceptible to microbial spoilage. Listeria monocytogenes and psychrotrophic Bacillus cereus can grow in ricotta salata at refrigerator temperatures, so keep it cold and use hygienic handling. The Brocciu specification limits the age of the whey (2 h) and of the added raw milk (24 h).
Hazards the sources name: Listeria monocytogenes; Bacillus cereus (psychrotrophic strains).
The Manouri specification, summarised in a Greek ministerial decision of 11 January 1994, says the cheese has been made for at least the previous century in central and western Macedonia and Thessaly. The Brocciu specification cites Emile Bergerat in 1886 calling brocciu the national dish of Corsica, Ardouin-Dumazet describing it in 1898, and a 1929 agricultural monograph that describes whey heated in a cauldron; the current specification was homologated by decree 2013-849 of 23 September 2013.