Elaboración de Queso de Murcia al Vino con cuajo natural en pasta

Resum

Since last decades it is so difficult to obtain lamb rennet pastes because they are generally not available and also new rules make them be out of law specially microbial levels. It led manufacturers to get other kind of rennets or coagulants. Although they can obtain cheaper rennets easyly what they lost was one of the most important things: the natural, typical traditional flavour of the cheese. The main objective of this study is the characterization of four lamb rennet pastes obtained following different sort of manufactures. This consists in treating two groups of abomasas ones full and the other ones empty of milk before the slaughter. After that these two groups of abomasas are treated with different technics so that they can be employed lately without any problem by combining adequate renneting and lipase activity. After one of them is chosen it is employed to manufacture Queso de Murcia al Vino (Murcian wine cheese) to compare with that obtained from kid liquid rennet. Secondly, several kind of analysis are made on the cheeses in order to determine its characteristics and the differences between them. As a result of this investigation we found that it exists many differences between the two types of cheeses. For example those cheeses made with rennet paste reached an adequate grade of maturity before those made with kid liquid rennet. Also we determined higher proteolysis and lipolysis activities values in those made with natural lamb rennet paste. In addition the cheeses obtained using rennet paste had a piquant and little bitter taste which was different to those made with commercial rennet. Finally, the sensory analysis gave a so good score for the cheese manufactured with rennet paste. It means that this kind of lamb rennet paste can be employed in the cheese making industrial sector as a good new alternative one.