Dairy
Caciotta
Caciotta is a small Italian table cheese often from mixed milks—mild, semi-soft to semi-hard, lightly aged, and shaped in small rounds. Flavour is gentle lactic to lightly tangy depending on milk blend and age. Slice for sandwiches and boards, melt lightly, or cube into salads. A flexible everyday Italian cheese rather than a long-aged grating style.
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CubedMeltedSliced
Traits
LacticMildSemi-SoftSmall WheelTable Cheese
History
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Central Italian farms made small caciotte from whatever milks the herd provided.
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Caciotta became a named category of mild mixed or single-milk table cheeses.
Specialty caciotte highlighted mixed-milk farmstead blends.