milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
milk source
Own herd
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milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
milk source
Own herd
season
All year
average age
3-4 Weeks
cheesemakers
Siobhán Ní Gháirbhith
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The St Tola we sell is made especially for us with fresh goats milk which is never chilled before the cheese is produced.
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Recipes
Herb Orzo with St Tola
This recipe serves two for lunch but can easily be scaled up for more people. Enjoy with a side of simple, sliced radicchio for a bright, fresh crunch. Ingredients200 grams dry orzo70 grams basil ...Dana Cree's Goat Cheese Pudding
Dana Cree’s recipe for Goat Cheese pudding, published in Food & Wine, is a hit with goat cheese enthusiasts. We opted to use St. Tola for a strong, goat-cheese-forward flavour. Serves 8 INGRED...A hug in a bowl
This recipe comes from cheesemonger Lydia, and features two cheeses which are tasting especially delicious now, St Tola (a goat’s cheese log from Co. Clare in Ireland) and Stichelton (a raw milk St...FAQs
As a general rule of thumb, we would recommend roughly between 100 and 150 grams per person for after dinner, and a bit more if cheese is the focus of the meal. If you are buying cheese to serve over a couple of days or as part of a buffet, it is advisable to buy a few larger pieces. This will both look better and keep better than many small bits. To help visualise weights, a good tip is to consider that a regular supermarket pat of butter weighs between 200 and 250 grams. If you are at all unsure please give us a call for some advice.
The best option is to keep your cheese wrapped in its paper within a box in the fridge. This will prevent the cheese from drying out and absorbing other flavours. Your cheese will arrive wrapped in waxed cheese paper, which achieves the best possible balance between maintaining humidity around the cheese and allowing it to breathe. We are happy to provide some free extra cheese paper, just search for "cheese paper" and add it to your basket. We don't recommend cling film or foil as it can cause the cheese to sweat which will negatively affect the flavour.
St Tola
St Tola has a delicate flavour with a lactic tang
The St Tola we sell is made especially for us with fresh goats milk which is never chilled before the cheese is produced.
milk type
Goat
ingredients
Raw Goat's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
milk source
Own herd
season
All year
average age
3-4 Weeks
cheesemakers
Siobhán Ní Gháirbhith
background
St Tola is produced by former-schoolteacher-turned-cheesemaker Siobhán Ní Gháirbhith and her small team in the town of Inagh just south of The Burren in County Clare. Made with goat's milk from the farm's herd of Saanen and Toggenburg goats, it is a mild and creamy cheese when young, but becomes firmer and more pungent as it ages.
our work with this cheese
The St Tola we sell is made to a special recipe for us, using uncooled morning milk and a little extra salt. As ours is made in a smaller batch than usual, the cheesemakers can gently mix the curds and salt by hand. On arrival, St Tola is dried in our drying room to stabilise and develop the rind. It is then turned every day for the first week it is with us, and every few days thereafter until it is ready to sell. We continue to provide feedback on this cheese, a process helped by the farm's practice of keeping samples back from each batch they send us to taste alongside us.