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The new Rosca cheese triumphs

Thread Cheese

New Castile and León Thread Cheese, and there are already five, has joined the family of this recently released Denomination of Gothic Fields. It is a cheese factory located in Villages of Campos (Palencia). It has been selected to make this sheep cheese.

The origin of this cheese is in the way some shepherds used to store it. So that the mice, they crossed the cheeses with a stick forming strings that hung from the ceiling, and in this way they kept away from the animals. The result was a cheese with a central hole.

A Rosca cheese made with raw milk

“By having a hole in the center, maturation is not the same. It matures faster and the flavors are different. It is a drier cheese ”, he explains. Mariano Paramio, director of the Gothic Fields, a Great Products.

"The elaboration is complex and a special mold with a hole is needed", he adds Paramium. He has recently been awarded the Cecale of Gold as one of the best entrepreneurs in Castilla y Leon. In this it would the molds are filled by hand and the cloth is used, as in the old days.

The maturation of this type of cheese can be done hanging the cheeses according to the traditional form or on surface. The cheese of Gothic fields, made with raw milk, 600 grams, went on the market a month ago. Joins the cured cheeses, in oil and cream cheese that the cheese factory has been making since 1994.

A sheep cheese with a great tradition

In a short time the Thread Cheese has positioned itself as one of the most demanded in Castilla y Leon. Before Gothic fields they started to produce it The House of the Pisones, riding a Burgos; El Molinero cheese, riding a Segovia; The Rueda Cheese Factory, riding a Valladolid, and Laurus Artisan Cheese Factory, riding a Zamora.

This new cheese has already been the victim of two attempts to copy it in Zamora y Madrid. But the legal services of Castile and León Thread Cheese they have aborted it. All the cheese of this Denomination carry a numbered guarantee seal that guarantees their quality.

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