American Ben's Cream Cheese Bocconcini, Lioni Plain Fresh
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Tasting Sheet Info American Cow Fresh 852 Ben's Cream Season: Year-round Real cultured cream cheese made daily in Cheese Rennet: none Manhattan. Age: fresh Size: 33 pounds New York New York Pasteurized Cow 1033 Bocconcini, Lioni Season: Year-round The Lioni family has been perfecting their whole Plain Rennet: Microbial cow's milk mozz for generations - it's delicate Age: Vegetable and moist with a clean milky flavor. Made Size: 3 pounds nearby in Jersey from a herd in upstate NY. Pasteurized. Union New Jersey Pasteurized Cow 677 Fresh Ricotta Can Season: Year-round Ricotta is a fresh, Soft, unripened cheese made Rennet: none from whey, a natural by-product of Age: Fresh cheesemaking. Like Little Miss Muffet, curds Size: 3 pounds and whey are the solids and liquid that make up milk. In cheesemaking, starter is added to milk, East Haven which eats the lactose in milk, creating lactic Connecticut acid. This acidification sours the milk, making it Pasteurized Cow curdle, and beginning the process of coagulating (lumping together) of the milk solids. Rennet is then added to further coagulation. What's left over in the bottom of the vat is whey, containing water-soluble vitamins, proteins and minerals. Heat this whey up to separate out remaining proteins and you get a cottage cheese-like mass that is ricotta. Delicious for dessert drizzled with honey, but more often moonlighting in lasagne and other Italian baked dishes. Maplebrook, Season: Year-round Burrata may be the penultimate organoleptic Burrata Rennet: none experience of fresh cheese. Step one: take a Age: a few days delicate ribbon of pasteurized cow milk curd Size: 8 oz barely a few minutes old and stretch it into the shape of a coin purse. Step two: fill coin purse Bennington Vermont with fresh sweet cream and threads of mozzarella-like cheese and seal. Step three: Pasturized Cow enjoy with just about anything, but eat it NOW! Maplebrook, Season: Year-round The youngest strechiest strands of mozarella Straciatella Rennet: none are mixed with fresh cream to create this classic Age: a few days Italian delight. Fresh, milky and delicious. Size: 1 pound Bennington Vermont Pasturized Cow Page 1 of 45 Tasting Sheet Info American Cow Fresh 1030 Mozzarella, Lioni Season: Year-round In the nearby town of Union, New Jersey, the Salted Rennet: none Lioni family stretch their fresh curds to great Age: Fresh lengths for these fist-sized parcels of mozz. Size: 1 lb After generations in business, they've mastered this art of fresh 'pasta-filata' or pulled curd style Union New Jersey of cheese-making. The result is delicate and milky - a perfect way to showcase the high Pasteurized Cow quality cow's milk they use from upstate NY. Very fresh and definitely pasteurized. The most authentico choice we've found this side of the Atlantic. 1031 Mozzarella, Lioni Season: Year-round After generations, the Lioni family has perfected Smoked Rennet: none the moist and delicate curd of their cows milk Age: Fresh mozz. Then they took it a step further with a Size: 1 lb heady treatment of natural wood smoke. Warning: although this pasteurized product is Union New Jersey safe for the pregnant, it may be habit forming. Pasteurized Cow 81794401000Murray's Burrata Season: Year-round Made for Murray’s by a family-owned dairy in Rennet: Microbial New Jersey, this burrata marries Hudson Valley Age: 1-2 weeks milk with traditional panna imported weekly from Size: 2 x 4oz pcs Italy. Rich Italian panna gives this burrata a lusciously creamy texture. The ultimate addition New Jersey to a salad of heirloom tomatoes and basil, it would also make a great filling for squash Pasteurized Cow blossoms, stirs right into hot pasta dishes and is perfect with a little bit of salt on toasted bread. Packed two to a pint so you won’t have to settle for just one application. 4793 Shy Brothers Season: Year-round You may have not heard of Cloumage, but now Farm, Cloumage Rennet: Animal you won't be able to live without it. 3rd Age: 1 week generation Shy Brothers dairy farm uses the Size: 4 pound milk from their own herd of grass-fed cows to craft Cloumage. A slow, 4-5 day make process Westport yields a uniquely tangy, rich, milky, curdy crème Massachusetts fraiche-yogurt-straciatella mash-up. Bake it into Pasteurized Cow the bottom of a tart. Smear it on a plate and construct savory dishes on top. Thin it with milk and lemon, add fresh herbs for a tangy dressing or sub for crème fraiche in any other recipes. Extra-long shelf-life and freeze-ability only add to the intrigue. The name, cloumage, is an amalgamation of clouds + fromage. We think it's a dream. Bloomy Page 2 of 45 Tasting Sheet Info American Cow Bloomy 5811 Champlain Valley Season: Year-round Infamous for his all-natural, award-winning Triple Crème Rennet: Microbial cream cheese, Carleton Yoder is at it again up Age: 3-4 weeks in Vergennes, VT. This time he's crafted a lightly Size: 4 ounces aged triple crème from his pastured organic cow milk. In lieu of growing a delicate bloomy rind on Vergennes Vermont the little crottins and then cruelly subjecting them to the harsh reality of by-mail delivery, he sends Pasteurized Cow them fresh and we ripen them here in our caves - ensuring that every downy rind is thin and perfectly edible. Enjoy the fluffy, buttery, undeniably creamy treat with a sparkling beverage of choice. 3350 Jasper Hill Season: Year-round Harbison is a new creation from the Cellars at Harbison Rennet: Animal Jasper Hill, a kind of happy marriage between Age: 1-2 months their Winnemere and Moses Sleeper. A girdle of Size: 12 ounces spruce bark kicks in a subtle, almost pine forest-y flavor and keeps the near liquid paste Greensboro Vermont from oozing out. Harbison is meant to be eaten with a spoon. Break through the top of the Pasteurized Cow cheese (like cracking through the burnt sugar on a crème brulèe) and go to town. 3058 Sweet Grass Dairy Season: Year-round Thomasville Georgia's Sweet Grass Dairy Green Hill Rennet: Microbial evolved out of the Wehner family's Age: 1 month disillusionment with conventional dairying. The Size: 8 ounces dairy is supplied with goat's milk from its own acreage and with cow's milk from the Green Hill Thomasville Georgia Farm which is also family owned. Both farms focus on animal health and comfort which is the Pasteurized Cow first and most important step towards high quality milk. Green Hill is made with cow's milk (and a dash of cream) from Green Hill Farm which has 900 cows (primarily Jerseys) on 340 acres and they are a New Zealand style rotational grazing farm with no confinement, and no concrete. The cows are the queens at this place and it comes through in the cheese- a creamy texture and a delicate, buttery taste all polished off with a pleasant acidity. A perfect outlet for the milk of pasture-grazed cows. Washed 2517 Cato Corner Farm Season: Year-round Made from the raw milk-of grass-fed Jersey Hooligan Rennet: Animal cows in Colchester, CT. Each one and a half Age: 60 days pound wheel is hand ladled and washed twice a Size: 1.5 pounds week, first with a mixture of buttermilk and b. linens and then with a brine solution. The Colchester resulting wheel (aged for at least 2 months) has Connecticut a sticky, pungent rind and a thick, uniform, Raw Cow creamy paste with a long, barnyardy finish. 1573 Consider Bardwell, Season: Year-round Raw Jersey cow milk is the basis of this Pawlet Rennet: Microbial Italian-style toma, which is aged four to six Age: 4-6 Months months. A creamy texture, pungent rind and Size: 10 pounds bright bite remind us of Bethmale Vache. A versatile cheese, like the town of Pawlet, VT West Pawlet Vermont which brings us slate, syrup, and timber. Available year-round in 10 pound wheels. Raw Cow Page 3 of 45 Tasting Sheet Info American Cow Washed 1958 Keeley's Across Season: Year-round Keeley McGarr in King Ferry, New York is one of the Pond Rennet: Microbial a growing number of young cheesemakers Age: 2-4 months changing the face of American cheese. And Size: 4.5# while she comes from a farming family, Keeley never planned to become a cheesemaker. King Ferry New York Across the Pond is a raw milk, washed-rind cheese carefully matured over 2-3 months. The Raw Cow cheese sports a lovely cream-line that yields to a curdy center which dissipates as the cheese ages. Clean, pungent, and approachable, wash this cheese down with a pale ale from Brooklyn Brewery 3048 Landhaus Season: Year-round Although Monroe, Wisconsin is not exactly close Limburger Rennet: Microbial to Belgium- Limburger's country of origin- it IS Age: 1 month the only place where Limburger is made in the Size: 8 ounces U.S. The Chalet Cheese Co-op has been providing the cheese under the name of Monroe Wisconsin "Landhaus" to the loving citizens of this country with Limburger since it was founded in 1885 by Pasteurized Cow five Wisconsin diary farmers. Do not be fooled by the 'burg's stink, there is a delectable, soft, savory paste right under that sticky "aromatic" skin. 3016 Meadow Creek, Season: Year-round Virginia's Feete family uses ecologically-sound Grayson Rennet: Animal farming practices in raising their dairy herd of Age: 60-75 days Jersey cows: no pesticides or herbicides are Size: 5 pounds used in the fields where the cows are rotationally pastured; the cows are never confined or fed Galax Virginia silage, and are given minimal hormones and antibiotics; and the milking season ends when Raw Cow grass growth wanes and the cows wind down their milk production.