Morning Milk Skin · Clotted Cream
Öröm (Clotted Cream)
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Öröm is also the first step toward Mongolian butter: collected sheets are heated and rendered down into shar tos, a golden clarified butter.
Fresh milk is simmered gently for hours, then left to cool overnight so a thick layer of cream rises and sets on the surface. It's peeled off in sheets and served with bread or aaruul at breakfast in Arkhangai's dairy-farming households, prized as the richest product of the province's milk.
Why it's made this way: The province's dense concentration of dairy herds gives Arkhangai households an unusually large surplus of milk to work with, and öröm exists specifically to make the most of that richness.
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