The ricotta cheese, to the farmhouse "Al Monte", it is prepared with only fresh milk produced in the family business. Its cooking, slow and on plate supplied by a wood burning fire, and entrusted to the experienced hands of the owner of the Farm to the mountain, Mr. Salvatore Pisana.
The ricotta cheese, although it is a dairy product, cannot be defined a cheese but it should be classified simply as dairy product, it is not obtained through the coagulation of casein, but by the proteins in the whey, i.e. the liquid part that separates from the curd during the cheese making.
The traditional method siciliano, still practiced in some small farms, as the Farm to the mountain, where the cheese is prepared each day with raw milk and without enzymes, uses an ancient system capable of producing a ricotta cheese of excellent quality. The ricotta prepared to the Farmhouse to Monte has a homogeneous smooth and not grainy, and has a sweet taste, due to the lactose present in the serum due to the high quality of the milk used.