Mununar Hortensia Maria Hortensia Mununar, an individual farmer, owns a herd of 41 buffalo from which she collects raw milk. She processes the milk at a Milk Processing Centre at her home address - Sat Bradu, Nr. 122, Oraș Avrig, County of Sibiu.

The products obtained by the farmer are:

Buffalomea buffalo is a semi-hard cheese made entirely from freshly milked, unpasteurised raw buffalo milk, using enzymatic rennet coagulation and traditional processing.

Buffalo curd

It is produced from buffalo milk and consists of: straining the milk, pouring it into a vat followed by heating, adding the rennet (natural lamb rennet). After the milk has been strained, the curds are separated from the whey using a sieve or gauze cloth (sedline). The curds must be thoroughly squeezed. After draining off the whey, a wheel about 50-60 cm in diameter and 12-14 cm thick is obtained. The quantity of curds produced in two to three days is stored in parallelepiped-shaped boxes in a darkened room. Up to 6-7 wheels of curds fit into a box. It is sold loose or packaged.

Cheese

It is obtained by soaking cow's milk curd in water at a temperature of about 80°C or in a mixture, after maturing it beforehand. The resulting paste is processed and put into moulds to obtain raw cheese. The rind or surface is smooth, clean, without wrinkles or hollows, without spots or cracks, yellowish-white in colour.

Bourduff cheese

It is a savoury, fermented cheese, quite compact but podgy, wrapped in a natural animal membrane.

Made from milk curd, making curd consists of: straining the milk, pouring it into a pot, heating it, adding rennet (natural lamb rennet). After the milk has been strained, the curds are separated from the whey using a sieve or a gauze cloth (sedline). The curds must be thoroughly squeezed. After draining off the whey, a wheel about 50-60 cm in diameter and 12-14 cm thick is obtained. The quantity of curds produced in two to three days is stored in parallelepiped-shaped boxes in a darkened room. Up to 6-7 wheels of curds fit into a box. The tin is covered and left to ferment (ripen) for 7-14 days, depending on the temperature, after which the ripened curds are sliced and crushed. It is salted, kneaded well and finally stuffed into a bellows, which is sewn closed.

The belly is made from sheep skin or stomach. A larger 'burduf' is made from two or more sheepskins, sewn together at the edges with strips of leather, resulting in a 'sack' that can hold 15-20 kg of cheese. It is sold loose.

Buffalo milk

Freshly milked milk rich in nutrients and trace elements.

"The Romanian Association about Food with headquarters in Bucharest, Sector 1, CC ARION Street, No. 15, Et. P, Apt. 1 - project leader, is an association whose aim is to create a platform for networking between areas such as the production, promotion and commercialisation of food products, education, information, professional training for distinct categories of the public by interconnecting these categories with the aim of improving the quality of life through a positive and balanced attitude towards food.

"The Romanian Association about Food with headquarters in Bucharest, Sector 1, CC ARION street, Nr. 15, Et. P, Apt. 1 - project leader, is an association whose aim is to create a platform for networking between areas such as the production, promotion and commercialisation of food products, education, information, professional training for distinct categories of the public by interconnecting these categories with the aim of improving the quality of life through a positive and balanced attitude towards food."

"The Research - Development Institute for Montanology Cristian - Sibiu (hereinafter referred to as ICDM) based in Cristian Village, Cristian Commune, Sibiu County, operates under the subordination of the Academy of Agricultural and Forest Sciences "Gheorghe Ionescu

Sisesti". The activity of ICDM is scientific research in the field of rural-mountain development, sheep, goat and bull breeding of breeds adapted to the mountain area, expansion of fruit and dendrological crops, studies, research, projects for the socio-economic development of the rural-mountain area. Research areas include "Animal breeding" and "Modernisation of industrialisation processes and valorisation of plant and animal products". According to the APIA documentation for 2021, the Institute has a number of 67 cattle and 496 sheep."

"The Research - Development Institute for Montanology Cristian - Sibiu (hereinafter referred to as ICDM) with its headquarters in Cristian Village, Cristian Commune, Sibiu County, operates under the subordination of the Academy of Agricultural and Forest Sciences "Gheorghe Ionescu Sisesti". The ICDM's object of activity is scientific research in the field of rural-mountain development, sheep, goat and bull breeding of breeds adapted to the mountain area, expansion of fruit and dendrological crops, carrying out studies, research, projects for the socio-economic development of the rural-mountain area.

Research areas include "Animal breeding" and "Modernisation of industrialisation processes and valorisation of plant and animal products". According to APIA documentation for 2021, the Institute has a total of 67 cattle and 496 sheep. "

"ADILUC AVANTAJ is a commercial company based in the village of Bradu, Avrig, No 504 A, County of Sibiu, which has at its registered office authorised activities for the objective of Local Gastronomic Point, where processed milk products produced by farmers Mununar Hortensia Maria and Iuga Maria will be sold."

"ACT Sibiu Association with headquarters in Sibiu, Str. Tilișca, Nr. 46, Bl. 5, Sc. A, Apt. 6 is an association whose object is the development and promotion of culture, art, education, multi-ethnicity, activities dedicated to young people from Romania and the European area, sports, social services, environment, gastronomy, defence of rights and promotion of citizens' interests. In order to achieve this aim, the Association shall have the following objective: to carry out and organise programmes, projects, events, training courses, educational, social, cultural, scientific, media, artistic, sports, craft, gastronomic, etc. programmes, projects, events, training courses, etc.".

"Mununar Hortensia Maria Hortensia, individual farmer, residing in Sat Bradu, Nr. 122, Avrig, County of Sibiu, owns, according to the certificate received from the veterinarian, a herd of 41 cattle and bubalines and 28 sheep from which she collects milk raw material. It processes the milk at a milk processing centre at its home address - Sat Bradu, No 122, Oraș Avrig, County of Sibiu. "