[HN Gopher] Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of th...
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Cream is thicker than blood: the rise and fall of the Devon split
Author : prismatic
Score : 35 points
Date : 2024-03-25 20:09 UTC (1 days ago)
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| nikolay wrote:
| I buy it here in California although it's expensive. I love it!
| zhengyi13 wrote:
| Chef John has a recipe to make it yourself if you want to
| invest the time. I've not done it myself, but he's usually
| pretty good with stuff.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDyyAb6lB48
| voakbasda wrote:
| We love Chef John, and we recently started growing a herd of
| American Milking Devon cows. This breed traces its lineage
| directly back to Devon, but they have become extremely rare
| (with less than a thousand animals in existence). I can't
| wait to try to make this recipe with their milk.
| ducttapecrown wrote:
| This is truly a Hacker News moment. Genuine. Certified.
| Thank you for sharing, that's awesome! Are the Devon cows
| extremely rare, or the American Milking Devon cows?
| nikolay wrote:
| In the Balkans, it's called "kajmak," and it's very popular.
|
| Update: kajmak [0] seems to be slightly different and mildly
| fermented.
|
| [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaymak
| hehhehaha wrote:
| kajmak and honey is 'chefs kiss'
| nsxwolf wrote:
| I can't eat something named "clotted cream".
| philk10 wrote:
| You're missing out then, it's delicious
| bookofjoe wrote:
| https://www.englishteastore.com/clotted-cream-6oz.html
| Tokkemon wrote:
| Can confirm, we served this stuff in our short-lived tea
| shop in New York and it made a huge difference in the
| quality of the product.
| daotoad wrote:
| Doesn't sound great, but it is delicious.
|
| It's just cream that's been gently heated for an extended time
| to denature the proteins a bit. Not all that different in
| spirit from fresh cheeses (though cheesemakers denature the
| proteins by acidification or enzymatic methods).
| thenewwazoo wrote:
| When I was a child in the 80s, my (Chinese) dad used to order
| "bean curd" in restaurants when we visited big city Chinese
| restaurants. I always found the name unappetizing in the
| extreme.
|
| Today, of course, I love tofu.
| KineticLensman wrote:
| It is perhaps for this reason that "black pudding" has the name
| that it does [0], rather than the more accurate "blood sausage"
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding
| xen0 wrote:
| As someone from Cornwall, the pictures in the article don't look
| right. Clotted cream is much thicker; those cakes look like
| they're made with whipped cream.
| Tokkemon wrote:
| Yeah it looks like whipped cream (chantilly) in the splits.
| Isn't that correct?
| xen0 wrote:
| I think one might struggle to pipe clotted cream, or produce
| anything so 'elegant' with it.
|
| It's thick, being mostly fat (often >60%). At least in
| Cornwall, it's often bought in plastic tubs like ice cream
| (it will hold its shape, not flow), not jars or bottles.
| hgomersall wrote:
| I expect not chantilly, just plain whipped cream.
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| Definitely whipped cream, but then it is a London bakery.
|
| Mind you not everyone in Devon takes cream seriously. I was at
| Darts Farm shop outside Exeter last summer and saw a stand
| advertising a Devon Cream Tea with a plast pot of Rodda's!
| xanderlewis wrote:
| What's wrong with Rodda's?
| clort wrote:
| Roddas is great stuff! However, it is cornish so perhaps
| not appropriate for a Devon Cream Tea?
| xanderlewis wrote:
| Ah!
| geodel wrote:
| I buy this[1] from Indian store, my spouse loves it.
|
| 1. https://www.karouncheese.com/product/malai-breakfast-
| cream-s...
| h4ch1 wrote:
| you can make it yourself!
|
| just boil some raw (even pasteurized works afaik), and keep it
| uncovered inside the refrigerator overnight. in the morning
| you'll have thick malai (cream) on the top which you can scoop
| up and enjoy with anything.
|
| i personally have it cold topped with crystallized sugar as a
| monthly treat :)
| Tokkemon wrote:
| Clotted Cream is possibly England's greatest invention, apart
| from perhaps the Westminster System of government.
| Tokkemon wrote:
| I suppose the railway engine is up there.... and the subway....
| hmm
| dontlaugh wrote:
| The system of government is an arcane disaster, unlike clotted
| cream.
| walthamstow wrote:
| Association Football is one of the most popular cultural
| pursuits in human history. I think it's a reasonable shout
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| Unquestionably one of the great inventions of the modern age.
|
| I take issue with the repeated use of 'churn' to describe
| ordinary milk cans. A churn has a dasher and paddle, to turn
| cream into butter. Nothing described nor pictured in the article
| is a churn.
| Reason077 wrote:
| Looks quite similar to Swedish _semlor_ , although those are
| flavoured with cardamom so no doubt the flavour is quite
| different!
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