Sainte-Maure is a farmstead goat cheese which is made throughout France. It is made with pure goat milk and has a fat content of 45%. It is a soft goat’s milk cheese shaped in the form of an elongated cylinder or log. The typical Sainte-Maure cheese mould is 8 inches in length and 2-1/4 inches in diameter. The cheese has a soft lactic body and is made by direct moulding. Many times the rind of the cheese is covered with a thin white bloom of Penicillium candidum. The cheese is very similar to a Montrachet. The log shaped cheese will many times have a long straw inserted through the center of it. The addition of the straw into the cheese simply helps in the unmoulding of the cheese which can at times be difficult due to its long shape.
