Wednesday 21st September 2011
by Veronique RICHEZ-LEROUGE
131 T per year
The Soumaintrain is a raw cow’s milk cheese, with an uncooked, unpressed and soft pate. Its orange and humid rind is washed. It has a circular shape and contains about 23% of fat for its total weight.
History
That cheese has the name of the village where it was created during the XIIth century, in the Armance valley. In those days, the Soumaintrain was aged by the farmers to pay the tithe of the Pontigny’s monks.
Production
The methods of production are close of the (...)
