June 20, 2004
Moralist Hangups
Its a day for raucous rejoicing when an immigrant to the Netherlands can help the natives remember their culinary traditions. Hangop is a Dutch summer dessert. It is simply joghurt hung up in a wet tea towel until all of the whey has been drained out of it, thickening the joghurt in the process.
'Why drain joghurt yourself?' you may ask. Indeed, why hang up joghurt when we can now buy perfectly delicious, hyper-thick, fatty joghurt at Turkish shops. The Turkish version even comes in a handy tub that when recycled works brilliantly as vernacular tupperware.
The reason you should drain your own joghurt is that this process is beautiful to behold and it yields a urine coloured water called 'whey'. Drink whey as a thirst quencher. Served ice-cold, there is no subsititute for piercing through the thick wall of mucous produced by an 80 kilometer cycling adventure than a good glass of whey.
Citrus Hangop
- 1 litre of jogurt 'well-hung' means at least 6 hours of hanging in a pre-moistened tea towel. Knot the corners of the towel around something high up and pour the johurt into this 'sack'. Put a container underneath to catch the precious whey dripping through the cloth.
- 1 teacup of syrup from the orange marmalade as a sweetener
- zest of 1/2 a lemon
- juice of whole lemon
Whisk until satin smooth.
Fold in:
- a few grains of saffron
- a few squirts of rosewater
Set aside to chill for at least 2hrs.
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