{"id":30587,"date":"2016-09-06T14:26:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=30587"},"modified":"2021-08-24T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:04:17","slug":"great-mistakes-cowgirl-creamerys-red-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/great-mistakes-cowgirl-creamerys-red-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Mistakes: Cowgirl Creamery&#8217;s Red Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/cheese-library\/Red-Hawk\">Red Hawk<\/a> is the best mistake we\u2019ve ever made. Sue made the first batch of <a href=\"https:\/\/cowgirlcreamery.com\/our-cheeses\/red-hawk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Red Hawk<\/a> [in 2001] while trying to correct a flaw on the rind of a <a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/cheese-library\/Mt-Tam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mt Tam<\/a>. Ordinarily, <a href=\"https:\/\/cowgirlcreamery.com\/our-cheeses\/mt-tam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mt Tam<\/a> begins to develop a nice, fluffy, white <em>Penicillium candidum<\/em> fuzz within four or five days. When Sue went to turn the cheese, it was bald and mottled. She looked more closely and found that cheese mites had jumped off the Stilton that was also in the aging room, had landed on Mt Tam, and were inhibiting the mold\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>Sue re-inoculated the rind by spraying it with a solution of <em>candidum<\/em> mold and water, but instead of encouraging the bloomy growth, the treatment killed the mold, allowing wild <em>B. linens<\/em> to take over. <em>B. linens<\/em> is a beneficial bacterium often found on cheese rinds. This rind was a light pink color and sticky to the touch. Sue was so upset that she plopped the cheese on the bottom rack, walked off, and promptly forgot all about it.<\/p>\n<p>Three weeks later, Kate Arding, who had come from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy<\/a> to help us set up \u201ca proper cheese counter\u201d (you may want to say that out loud with a British accent), discovered the cheese Sue had abandoned. The cheese had continued to ripen and develop strong aromas. Kate cut open one of the cheeses, marveled at the gooey texture, and tasted it. Kate was so excited she ran out of the aging room to find us. \u201cThis is the best cheese you\u2019ve ever made,\u201d she told us. \u201cIt\u2019s rich and savory, almost meaty in flavor with perhaps a hint of anchovies and lemon. It has such a long, sweet-cream finish. Can you do it again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After much discussion, tasting, and research, we realized that we had inadvertently created a washed-rind cheese with an aroma that was almost alarmingly strong but with flavors that were seductively mellow. The <em>B. linens<\/em> is the dominant bacterium that cheesemakers use to wash the rinds of big-flavored cheeses such as Taleggio and Vacherin. This family of molds thrives in cool, humid climates and grows even faster when salt is introduced, so the Point Reyes environment is ideal for the cultivation of these bacteria. While most cheesemakers have to inoculate the rind with B. linens, we don\u2019t need to. Where we live it\u2019s wild and grows everywhere, so over time we were able to replicate our mistake.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Red Hawk was judged the Best of Show at the annual American Cheese Society competition. It was the first time a washed-rind cheese had ever won the contest.<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/cowgirlcreamery.com\/cowgirl-creamery-cooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cowgirl Creamery Cooks<\/a>&nbsp;<em>(Chronicle Books, October 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><small>Feature Photo Credit: Sara Remington<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By inadvertently killing the mold on a Mt Tam, Cowgirl Creamery ultimately created a fan favorite: Red Hawk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":30588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26354],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1044],"class_list":["post-30587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - 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