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Fermented milk from USSR

Snezhok ("Little snowball")снежок

Snezhok is a soured milk drink, usually with sugar or fruit-berry syrup added. It is made from pasteurised milk soured with Bulgarian bacillus and lactic streptococci. The body is sour-cream-like and slightly viscous.

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

Short entryFermented milk

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedWhat goes in. No source gives amounts for this ferment.
pasteurised cow milk
sugar or fruit-berry syrup
Starterdefined-culture: Bulgarian bacillus (L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus) + lactic streptococci

Total time across the steps of Ryazhenka: 7.5 h – 12 h

Start
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94–98 °C

What changes: The milk is homogenised and pasteurised before baking

Step 1 of 5 · steps of Ryazhenka
Homogenise and pasteurise the milk
Time
Not documented
Temperature
94–98 °C
Reported
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
L. delbrueckii

Output: pasteurised, normalised milk.

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

Snezhok is a soured milk drink, usually with sugar or fruit-berry syrup added. It is made from pasteurised milk soured with Bulgarian bacillus and lactic streptococci. The body is sour-cream-like and slightly viscous. Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and Lactic streptococci do most of the fermenting.

What makes this one different

Snezhok usually has sugar or fruit-berry syrup added to the soured milk (ru.wikipedia).

Related ferments

Safety

Low risk.

History and sources

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

Developed in the USSR in the 1960s as an alternative to the unpopular Bulgarian yoghurt, and now made in large volumes across the CIS (ru.wikipedia, citing Tovarny slovar vol. 9, 1961).

  1. [wp-ru] ru.wikipedia, Снежок (напиток)wiki