The men’s monastery of Optina Pustyn in the Kaluga region began to produce Camembert cheese. On the website of the monastery published a half-hour video, which focuses on the production technology of this product.
For this purpose, as writes “Interfax”, in particular, used mold, bacteria and rennet, which is secreted from the stomach of a newborn calf. For the manufacture of the party takes about two weeks.
In 2014, monks from the Valaam island decided to produce elite varieties of Italian cheese — mozzarella, caciotta, moracco, ricotta. Agape father went to Italy and took a course at the local cheese-makers. Especially for Balaam, Italian experts have developed a recipe for cheese under the name of monastico.
The production of cheese, the monks began after Russia in response to sanctions imposed against a number of countries the food embargo. In the list of goods that are prohibited to ship to Russia, include, in particular, milk and dairy products. The sanctions affect EU States, the USA, Australia, Canada, Norway, Montenegro, Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Ukraine.
