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Fermented milk from Sakha Republic

Suoratсуорат

Skimmed cow's milk is boiled, cooled to 35–36 °C and whipped with sour cream into a thick foam, then covered, wrapped in a blanket and left for a few hours to sour. The result is a thick, airy, buttermilk-tasting yoghurt, the commonest summer dish in Yakutia, once kept in birch-bark vats and frozen into slabs for winter.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Suorat itself.

DocumentedFermented milk5 h – 6 h

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedHousehold recipe with no fixed amounts in the sources read.
Skimmed cow's milk[wp-ru]
Sour creamWhipped into the cooled milk[wp-ru]
Tuma add-ins (sour cream, cottage cheese, wild strawberries, blueberries, bearberry, barley porridge, wild herbs)optional[wp-ru][danilov2019]
Startersour cream whipped into the cooled milk

Total time across the recorded steps: 5 h – 6 h

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What changes: Skimmed milk is brought to the boil

Step 1 of 4
Boil the skimmed milk
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented

Output: boiled skim 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

Skimmed cow's milk is boiled, cooled to 35–36 °C and whipped with sour cream into a thick foam, then covered, wrapped in a blanket and left for a few hours to sour. The result is a thick, airy, buttermilk-tasting yoghurt, the commonest summer dish in Yakutia, once kept in birch-bark vats and frozen into slabs for winter. Made in 4 steps over 5 h – 6 h. The longest step, cover, wrap in a blanket and sour, takes 5–6 h (ru.wikipedia).

Key numbers
Main step5–6 hReported[wp-ru]Cover, wrap in a blanket and sour
Temperature35–36 °CReported[wp-ru]Cool and whip in sour cream

What makes this one different

Suorat is set with sour cream as the starter and whipped to a foam before it sours, which makes it airy. Most yoghurts use a thermophilic culture and are not whipped first.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Suorat with tumaAny add-in mixed into suorat; the add-in is named, as in suorat with cream (tumalaakh suorat).
  • Akhaaraan omSuorat with edible plants and berries, under a regional name (ru.wikipedia).
  • KüörchekhListed as a suorat variant; generally whipped cream with sour cream and berries (see its own entry).

Safety

The milk is boiled before the starter goes in. No safety study of suorat was found.

History and sources

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

Suorat is a Sakha summer staple. The Yakut dairy vocabulary has 31 names for fermented-milk products, among them suorat and its tuma mixes (Danilov 2019).

  1. [wp-ru] ru.wikipedia, Суорат (citing make-eat.ru and yakutskhistory.net)wiki
  2. [danilov2019] Danilov I.A. 2019, Yakut dairy lexicon (Lomonosov-2019 conference abstract, Moscow State University)paper