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Fermented milk from Sakha Republic

Küörchekh (kuerchekh)күөрчэх

Küörchekh is a Yakut dish of sour cream or cream whipped with berries and sugar. It is a boundary entry; only the sour cream in it is fermented, and the dish itself is whipped, not fermented.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Küörchekh itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Smetana, the closest documented fermented milk ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Küörchekh.

Short entryFermented milk

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedNo amounts are given in any source found.
Sour cream or cream[wp-ru]
Berries[wp-ru]
Sugar[wp-ru]

Total time across the steps of Smetana: 24 h

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What changes: The cream is standardised and heated to kill microbes

Step 1 of 4 · steps of Smetana
Normalise, homogenise and pasteurise the cream
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

The cream is normalised to the target fat with skim milk, homogenised and pasteurised; the finished product must show no phosphatase or peroxidase, which shows it was heated.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Küörchekh is a Yakut dish of sour cream or cream whipped with berries and sugar. It is a boundary entry; only the sour cream in it is fermented, and the dish itself is whipped, not fermented.

What makes this one different

A whipped dessert rather than a ferment; suorat, the Yakut sour milk, is the fermented relative.

Boundary
Mostly a whipped dessert; only the sour cream in it is fermented

Related ferments

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [wp-ru] ru.wikipedia, Якутская кухня (кёрчех, күөрчэх, whipped cream; sour cream or cream with berries and sugar)wiki