Soft Goats Log

St Tola Ash

By St Tola

£10.95£43.80

Maker: Siobhan Ni Ghairbhith
Region: Clare, Ireland
Type: soft, log
Milk: goat
Rennet: animal
Rind: natural
Age: 1+ month

 


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St Tola Ash log is a lightly matured, ash coated soft cheese made with raw organic goat’s-milk from the St Tola herd of Saanen and Toggenburg goats. Young St Tola Ash is fairly loose textured with a mild and creamy flavour. Since the cheese loses moisture as it matures, older St Tola is firmer textured with a more pronounced flavour. The ash coating allows for a slower maturation process resulting in a complex, smooth textured goats cheese that really packs a punch! Owing largely to its low salt content at just 1%, St Tola rarely develops real sharpness, and is a fantastic introduction to the world of quality goat’s cheese.

Siobhan Ni Ghairbhith runs St Tola at Inagh Goat Farm, just south of the beautiful Burren area in County Clare.

Meg and Derrick Gordon began making St Tola in the Burren in 1978, primarily as a means of making a living out of their 25 acre holding. All the milk used came from their own herd. Meg had picked up cheese making skills during her time in Normandy, whilst Derrick, as former tea-plantation manager, was no stranger to hard agricultural work. This formidable combination allowed the couple to make a success of their business. Some twenty years later their neighbour, Siobhan Ni Ghairbhith, interested in learning the cheesemaker’s art, began to take lessons from Meg. A year later Meg handed over the running of the business to Siobhan, who took charge of the herd and relocated production to a purpose built cheesemaking facility on the her parents’ family farm, a short distance away.

These days the St. Tola range includes crottins, logs, hard cheeses, Greek style cheese and a soft cream cheese. St Tola Ash is the sister cheese to St Tola, which is the same cheese without the vegetable ash coating.

St Tola Ash is also wonderful to cook with and is often used in the nascent modern Irish style, where the emphasis is firmly on the use of quality, local ingredients. Try it on toast with honey, or with filo pastry and tomatoes.

This product will have two weeks shelf life from the date of delivery. Conveniently, at checkout you can choose a delivery date even well in the future if you would like your cheese delivering for a specific event.

Additional information

Ingredients

Unpasturised goats milk, starter cultures, animal rennet, salt

Allergen Advice

Contains Milk

Size

250g Serves 3-5, 500g Serves 6-10, 1Kg Serves 10-20

Item will be wrapped in waxed paper, and packed for delivery in our eco-friendly Woolcool pouch, guaranteeing a constant temperature for up to 72 hours. The price of the Woolcool pouch is £3.95 which will be added at checkout. Please select a delivery day Wednesday-Friday as we prefer not to ship chilled orders after Wednesday (Mainland UK) or Thursday (NI/ROI) as delays will mean the goods will sit in the couriers warehouse over the weekend and probably spoil.

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