Sheep Rummaging in Bran Moeciu County

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Once the weather gets cold, at the end of September, the fat sheep go down from the mountains. They are awaited by their impatient owners to see them healthy and to get their share of cheese. Sheep going down the valleys or “the rummaging” closes tastefully the pastoral year. It is secular tradition tourism put good use, especially because it offers splendid images and traditional cuisine, plus bunds of music, corn mush with cheese, pemmican and must.

At Bran, the Celebration is moved with pomp on Queen’s Plateau, at the foot of the castle, the place where the box containing Queen Mary’s heart was found.

The Celebration’s menu contains obligatory folk songs dances; only after the guests and the locals load their bellies with “geto-dacian” corn mush with cheese, pemmican and various sorts of good-smelling cheese. The cheese is the queen of a cookery exhibition, the zone from the foot of the Bucegi Mountains being known for its big milk production. Fir-tree needles cheese, basket cheese, bag cheese, the entire specific sorts are exposed by the producers, those who, besides the tourists, attend the sheep rummaging. The habit of rummaging closes the “measuring” of milk in the spring. Then, every sheep/cows owner finds out its share of the cheese in the fall.

Besides “Sheep Rummaging” Bran authorities organized with their mercantile sense a Contest of cheese and pemmican. For this purpose, demonstrations of high cookery are patronized by associations in the tourism field. You also have the occasion to admire and purchase objects brought here by handicraftsmen from all over Romania. From painted eggs to clothes, the range is extremely various, as well as the events and objectives schedule. Have you seen them already? Make a traveling or a walk on the last sun rayed soothed hills around.

The sheep rummaging offers you the opportunity to learn about shepherds’ life. If you know how to approach them you will learn mystery and many recipes. An ewe raised in the mountains costs approximately 20 RON/season, while for cows the price is 15 times bigger, but also the cheese quantity is a lot bigger (approx. 70 kilos, in comparison with approx. 5 kilos of sheep cheese).

The shepherds do not profit solely on cheese or salaries, but also on meat sales, especially from little rams.

Shepherds’ concerns are towards EU accession, because this seems to bring important settlements in the production process. It could be needed special apparatus and hygienic norms. If fir-tree needles cheese and bag cheese are recognized as Romanian original products these fears will be history, as raisers say.

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