Caciocavallo “Horse cheese” – I believe one of the most expensive Italian cheese
My brother brought this cheese from his stay in Italy, and it was pretty good !
by Hedone86
8 Comments
Nef_Fets
Expensive, no. Great on pizza, yes.
Glasedount
Looks like one giant AirPod
Historicmetal
Please tell me this isn’t made from horse milk
Historicmetal
Please tell me this isn’t made from horse milk
YoavPerry
I think you are mixing up concepts here because of the confusing name… so a little breakdown of one of the oldest cheeses in human history:
Caciocavallo -Caccio means cheese. Cavallo means horse. This is not a cheese made with horse milk. It’s one of the worlds oldest cheese, a pasta-filata (stretched curd) type made like mozzarella but aged. The confusing name comes from the legend that in ancient times a horseman used animal stomach as a vessel to carry milk on the back of a horse. Upon their arrival they found that the milk has been curdled and coagulated into a solid -and cheese was born. This legend may be truthful as it describes the exact enzymatic reaction of milk to the enzymes in a calf stomach lining (chymosin and pepsin. This cheese as slickness that is arrivistes to another enzyme lipase). Today rennet is made from these very same enzymes due to their milk clotting abilities. Lipase is still used to make cheese more piquant.
That cheese was simply named as “that cheese made on a horseback”. It is obviously no longer made this way but the shape should remind you of a cheese that was formed in a bag on the back of a horse.
It’s a very common cheese with over 2,000 year old history, and others like provolone came from this one too. In the nearby Balkan region there is another version of it called Kashkaval. (Commercially made without the interesting shape usually). Staple cheese in the region that’s a tad piquant.
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Expensive, no. Great on pizza, yes.
Looks like one giant AirPod
Please tell me this isn’t made from horse milk
Please tell me this isn’t made from horse milk
I think you are mixing up concepts here because of the confusing name… so a little breakdown of one of the oldest cheeses in human history:
Caciocavallo -Caccio means cheese. Cavallo means horse. This is not a cheese made with horse milk. It’s one of the worlds oldest cheese, a pasta-filata (stretched curd) type made like mozzarella but aged. The confusing name comes from the legend that in ancient times a horseman used animal stomach as a vessel to carry milk on the back of a horse. Upon their arrival they found that the milk has been curdled and coagulated into a solid -and cheese was born. This legend may be truthful as it describes the exact enzymatic reaction of milk to the enzymes in a calf stomach lining (chymosin and pepsin. This cheese as slickness that is arrivistes to another enzyme lipase). Today rennet is made from these very same enzymes due to their milk clotting abilities. Lipase is still used to make cheese more piquant.
That cheese was simply named as “that cheese made on a horseback”. It is obviously no longer made this way but the shape should remind you of a cheese that was formed in a bag on the back of a horse.
It’s a very common cheese with over 2,000 year old history, and others like provolone came from this one too. In the nearby Balkan region there is another version of it called Kashkaval. (Commercially made without the interesting shape usually). Staple cheese in the region that’s a tad piquant.
Very nice cheese. Like a baby provolone.
One of my favorites!
For some reason, this is scary to me