Butta Schaf Cheese
4 oz wedge
$11.508 oz wedge
$17.00Goot Essa Butta Schaf Cheese is a pecorino-style cheese, and is another cheese that gets its inspiration from the Alps—but this time the French Alps.
| Texture | A hard texture, full bodied cheese with a smooth, creamy paste |
| Flavor | Richly pronounced buttery notes, balanced tang and hints of earth and a full nut finish |
| Aged | 10 months |
| Milk Type | Sheep |
| Shelf Life | 3 months |
| Presentation | 4 oz wedge, 8 oz wedge, and 4 lb wheel; wedges vacuum sealed; wheel wrapped in butcher paper |
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BUTTA SCHAF CHEESE
Goot Essa Butta Schaf Cheese is another all-natural gourmet cheese produced from raw sheep milk. This traditional Amish recipe is an artisanal, full-bodied hard cheese of the pecorino style with hints of earth tones. The taste hints of acorns with a natural pecorino bite. We produce Butta Schaf Cheese in 4 lb wheels and cave age them for 10-12 months. This cheese grates well, melts into a superb stretchy cheese and fits with many pasta dishes as well as numerous casseroles. It adds zest to oil and vinegar lettuce salads. Butta Schaf fits well with savory or sweet dishes such as pesto, spiced nuts, apples, dried cranberries, and dark chocolate. This sheep milk cheese also fits on an after-dinner cheese board and is also a pleasing addition to charcuterie boards. Butta Schaf Cheese pairs well with Goot Essa condiments such as Rebecca’s Strawberry Cranberry Preserve, Aunt Mary’s Peach Jam, and Dutch Treat Raspberry Red Beet Spread. We recommend a wide range of semi-dry white wines and full-bodied reds with lower tannins, particularly the Italian style wines. This cheese is also complimentary with amber, rye ale, brown ale, and Octoberfest beers. Butter Shaft translates to “the butter milk sheep” in Pennsylvania Dutch.
The sheep milk for Butta Schaf Cheese comes from an Amish farm located in Penns Valley, Pa. Usually, the sheep live on lush pasture for almost the whole year. The farming family milk the sheep from mid-January through mid- October.
Goot Essa—good food in Pennsylvania Dutch.
