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Clotted cream forms by slow gentle heating
Cream is held just below a simmer until a thick golden crust rises to the top In Devon and Cornwall, milk is left in shallow pans to settle, then heated gently for hours at around 80 to 90 degrees Celsius and cooled overnight. The heat makes fat globules cluster and rise, forming a dense yellow layer that is skimmed off. Clotted cream ends up around 55 percent fat, far richer than ordinary cream. It sits in Mondo's food collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Clotted cream forms by slow gentle heating: the short answers
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- Cream is held just below a simmer until a thick golden crust rises to the top. The figure is taken from The Food Timeline, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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