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L' Empereur léger
Semi-firm cheese, low in fat with a washed rind, with a turnip smell and a salted butter flavor.
This cheese is slightly firmer and milder than the regular Empereur because it contains less fat (less cream).
- Pasteurized cow’s milk and modified milk ingredients
- Refining time: 3 to 4 weeks
- Fat: 17% - Moisture: 52%
- Pairings: Tomatoes, grapes, lager, mild red wine
Awards received for our Empereur léger
We are proud to have received numerous awards for the quality of our cheeses.
American Cheese Society
- 2003 — 1st place*
- 2011 — 1st place*
- 2012 — 1st place*
- 2013 — 1st place*
* In their respective categories.
Technical specifications
*subject to change without notice
Technical information | |
|---|---|
Manufactured format: | 2.2 kg wheel |
Product category: | Semi-firm surface ripened cheese. Reduced fat. Washed rind |
Product description: | Rind: Straw yellow to orange yellow |
Specifications: | Fat: 17% |
Ingredients: | Pasteurized partly skimmed milk, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme. |
Milk: | Pasteurized cow’s milk and modified milk ingredients |
Refining time: | 3 to 4 weeks |
Shelf life: | 120 days from production date |
Allergen: | Milk |
Storage and transport conditions: | Keep refrigerated |
Product packaging: | Whole wheel: waxed paper |
Nutrition Factsfor 1 3 cm cube (30 g) | |
|---|---|
| Calories 90 | Daily value* % Daily value |
| Fat 6 g | 8 % |
| saturated 4.5 g | 23 % |
| +trans 0 g | |
| Carbohydrates 1 g | |
| Fiber 0 g | 0 % |
| Sugars 0 g | 0 % |
| Protein 8 g | |
| Cholesterol 10 mg | |
| Sodium 300 mg | 13 % |
| Potassium 30 mg | 1 % |
| Calcium 200 mg | 20 % |
| Iron 0 mg | 0 % |
| *5% or less is not much, 15% or more is a lot | |
Cheese preservation
Semi-firm & firm cheese Washed Rinds, Semi-firm & firm cheese Washed Rinds
To best preserve semi firm to firm cheese with washed rinds, store them in the fridge between 2-4 degrees in the paper provided.
The paper will get malleable every time it is unwrapped but will not lose its efficiency to keep the cheese fresh. It is very normal that a layer of white mold grows on the paste of the cheese, this is the natural process of the rind trying to form.
This mold is not harmful; you may remove a thin slice and keep consuming the cheese. The cheese will keep for 4-5 weeks refrigerated.
“Very friendly and helpful staff.”
“Just north of the US border very cute cheese shop. Many choices with just as many samples to help You decide.
We were traveling far and were offered frozen bottles of water to keep cheese cool. Very friendly and helpful staff. ”
Stacy N.
Yelp“Excellent service, very reasonable prices and superb cheese”
“This place is as excellent as other reviewers indicate. We visited during a bike tour when about a dozen of us stopped in for lunch. Excellent service, very reasonable prices and superb cheese (and baguettes to put it on). We biked in from Vermont–only about 10 minutes from the border crossing. The place seems very popular with local residents as well as tourists. All in all a very nice scene. ”
Frank K.
Yelp
