Raclette Blog — raclette

This recipe is brought to you by the Swiss Embassy, Swiss Culture from Home, early June 2023: June is also Spargelzeit (asparagus season), a pretty big deal in Switzerland, so we’re sharing one way to prepare and enjoy asparagus the way the residents of the Swiss Canton of Valais do. It’s quite common to serve your asparagus with ham, but the Valaisans serve their stalks with local air-dried country ham, tossing in tomatoes and some raclette cheese for good measure. If you don’t have Valais country ham and raclette cheese at home, don’t worry! Similar dried meats such as prosciutto...

RacletteCorner is adding a new product line: Raclette from the cheesemaker Jumi. Jumi is located in beautiful Emmenthal, canton Bern. The family behind Jumi has made cheese for 5 generations. The milk comes from surrounding small family farms. The largest farm has just 28 head of cows. In the summertime, the cows are brought up to the higher alps, plugging away on fresh grass and herbs. In the winter the cows are fed hay, never silage.    Twice a day the cows are milked and the milk is brought, still warm, by tractor, horse, or even dogs to the creamary.  ...

The raclette cheese from Grison Creamery has been aging for a few weeks now. Cheesemaker Adrian and his dad are expecting the cheese "cellar". See the progress...