Cream Cheese Fromage Blanc Isigny 500g

Name: Cream Cheese Fromage Blanc Isigny 500g
SKU: CRE17
Availability: InStock

About This Cheese

The genuine product, pure cream cheese, ideal for cheese cakes or any recipe calling for cream cheese or fromage blanc. Made by the Isigny Cooperative in Normandy

€6.15

Story

Fromage blanc is a mildly tangy, soft, spreadable cheese made with soured milk. Cream cheese is simply fresh cheese which has a reasonably high fat and moisture content, has not been allowed to develop any sort of rind and has very little added salt. Soft cheese was often stored in sealed ceramic pots in the millennia before refrigeration but the lack of salt, along with the high fat and high moisture content, means it has little use as a means of preserving milk nutrients for any length of time. Many different variations of cream cheese exist in different cultures, including quark, cottage cheese, queso fresco, fromage frais and fromage blanc. (BOOK)

Producer

The Isigny Sainte Mére cooperative has been operating in Calvados since 1932. It is a combination of resources from two complementary dairy cooperatives: Sainte-Mère and Manche. The Isigny region used to be one of Europe’s largest wetlands until the sea retreated in the sixteenth century. It left behind a clay soil with rich alluvial sediments, upon which green grass grows abundantly. For centuries, the region’s dairy farmers have produced exceptionally fine milk, earning a well-established reputation for quality. The cows which graze these pastures are eating grass which makes their milk rich in mineral salts and trace elements. (adapted)