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Vastedda della Valle del Belìce PDOVastedda della valle del Belìce
Raw whole milk of Valle del Belìce sheep is set with lamb rennet paste at 36–40 °C in 40–50 minutes in a wooden vat, broken to rice-grain size and left in rush baskets at room temperature for 24–48 hours to sour to pH 4.7–5.5. The sliced curd is stretched under whey or water at 80–90 °C, shaped into balls and set in deep ceramic dishes. After 30 minutes to 2 hours in saturated brine it is eaten fresh, 12–48 hours later.
no starter culture is added; the curd ferments naturally in rush baskets
Total time across the recorded steps: 37 h – 4.1 days
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What changes:Lamb rennet paste sets the raw ewe milk at 36–40 °C
Step 1 of 7
Set with lamb rennet paste
Time
40–50 min
Set
Temperature
36–40 °C
Set
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
S. gallolyticus
S. thermophilus
Lactococcus lactis
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
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 whole milk of Valle del Belìce sheep is set with lamb rennet paste at 36–40 °C in 40–50 minutes in a wooden vat, broken to rice-grain size and left in rush baskets at room temperature for 24–48 hours to sour to pH 4.7–5.5. The sliced curd is stretched under whey or water at 80–90 °C, shaped into balls and set in deep ceramic dishes. After 30 minutes to 2 hours in saturated brine it is eaten fresh, 12–48 hours later. Made in 7 steps over 37 h – 4.1 days. The longest step, sour in rush baskets, takes 24 h – 2 days (Disciplinare di produzione della DOP 'Vastedd…). Autochthonous lactic acid bacteria; the commonest in winter and spring cheeses were Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus, Streptococcus thermophilus, Lactococcus lactis and Leuconostoc mesenteroides does most of the fermenting.
One of very few stretched-curd cheeses made from sheep milk; the raw curd sours for a day or two in rush baskets before it is stretched, and it is eaten fresh.
Milk
Raw whole milk of Valle del Belìce sheep
Ripening
None; eaten fresh, 12–48 hours after salting, and packed in polyethylene
Composition
At least 35 % fat in dry matter (18 % on the fresh cheese); salt at most 2.7 % of the fresh cheese
The specification requires the milk to be worked within 48 hours of the first milking and allows it to be chilled. The curd is stretched at 80–90 °C, the shaped loaves sit 30 minutes to 2 hours in saturated brine, and the cheese is sold fresh 12–48 hours later, packed at the dairy where it was made because it is a "living" product rich in changing microorganisms. The curd is ready to stretch at pH 4.7–5.5. A study of the cheese found enterobacteria at 3.3–5.6 log CFU/g in some samples.
Hazards the sources name: Enterobacteria, when present, at 3.3–5.6 log CFU/g.
The specification says the name comes from the vastedde, the deep ceramic dishes in which the stretched cheese is set to firm into a loaf shape. It adds that the name may also come from "vasta", meaning spoiled, because local cheesemakers tried to recover fresh cheeses made in summer that had gone off in the heat. The EU entered the name in the PDO register on 28 October 2010.