Milk jam
Milk jam is the name for a boiled-down milk-sugar mixture that is used as a food and ingredient.
term
Konfit refers to the French term confire for preserving , which goes back to the Latin term conficere in the sense of to prepare, to prepare . A similar use is that of jam for fruit spreads.
Other names are:
- Milk caramel / cream and caramel sauce in the German language
- confiture de lait in the French language
- Dulce de leche and manjar blanco : in Spanish-speaking South and Central America, there also arequipe and cajeta
- doce de leite : in ( Portuguese-speaking ) Brazil, there also mumu
preparation
To make it, you boil cow's milk and granulated sugar and then heat the mixture for several hours. In the course of the Maillard reaction and the caramelization of crystal and milk sugar , the mixture turns brown and thickens. The mixture is cooled before further use.
The cow's milk is partially replaced by goat's milk . As sugar , both white sugar as colored with molasses cane sugar as cane sugar used. Adding bicarbonate, such as deer horn salt, is common to balance the acidity . Further optional ingredients are vanilla , vanilla , cinnamon , corn - syrup , salt and water. In industrial production, thickeners such as agar and additives such as baking soda and phosphates are also added.
use
Milk jam is used as a spread and as an ingredient for making desserts such as pudding, flan or ice cream. It is also often used as a filling for cakes, e.g. B. Torta de mil hojas (thousand-leaf cake) made from puff pastry. Alfajores are also often filled with dulce de leche in South America.
Dulce de Leche
The Argentine journalist Víctor Ego Ducrot writes in his book Los sabores de la patria (1998) that this milk spread has been produced in Chile under the name Manjar since the 18th century. Back then the manjar was made from cow's milk with sugar, vanilla and cinnamon. From there, this dessert spread to neighboring countries. Another story is also told in Argentina, according to which the dulce de leche came about by chance when the servant of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793–1877) forgot a pot with milk and sugar (for the mate tea ) on the fireplace. She then found a brown cream that her employer and his opponent Juan Lavalle ate when they met for peace talks. In 2003 Argentina tried to register the Dulce de Leche as a World Heritage Site with UNESCO . Since Uruguay protested against this procedure, UNESCO has not taken any action so far.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jams in: Brockhaus Kochkunst, 1st edition, Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus AG, 2008. ISBN 9783765332814 .
- ↑ Historia del dulce de leche | Todo Dulce de leche :: TodoDulcedeLeche.com.ar. In: tododulcedeleche.com.ar. Retrieved July 31, 2016 .
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_2985000/2985585.stm