Fakty o: Stewler
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Varenets, sometimes anglicised as stewler or simmeler, is a fermented milk product that is popular in Russia. Similar to ryazhenka, it is made by adding sour cream to baked milk.
Production
Varenets is a fermented dairy drink with a caramel taste and creamy color. In the old days milk was baked in a Russian oven and fermented with sour cream.
Commercially available cultured varenets is milk that has been pasteurized and homogenized (with 0.5% to 8.9% fat), and then inoculated with a culture of Streptococcus thermophilus to simulate the naturally occurring bacteria in the old-fashioned product.
Health benefits
Varenets prepared in the traditional way is considered beneficial to health as it contains probiotic microbes. The probiotic nature of varenets is purported to be beneficial to the gut and improve immunity when taken regularly.
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