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EveryCow

From the cow

67 products of the world's cattle, each drawn as a ring of its inputs and made step by step: milk, boil, churn, ferment, serve.

RegionAll South Asia Southeast Asia East Asia Central Asia and the Caucasus Middle East North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Europe North America Latin America and the Caribbean Oceania

Butter and ghee

Ghee, makkhan, smen, cultured butter and the butters of the world: cream churned and clarified.

🇫🇷 Butter and gheeIsigny butter (Normandy cultured butter)Golden butter churned from ripened cream on the wet pastures around the Veys bay in Normandy, under a protected name.

Milk and cream

Clotted cream, kaymak, malai and the fresh milk of a breed known for it.

🇬🇧 Milk and creamClotted creamThick yellow cream formed by gently heating milk and cooling it slowly, the crown of a Devon or Cornish cream tea.🇫🇷 Milk and creamCrème fraîcheThick, lightly sour cultured cream that holds up in a hot sauce without curdling.🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇧🇾 Milk and creamSmetanaEastern European soured cream, spooned into borscht and onto blini, pelmeni and pancakes.🇬🇧 Milk and creamSyllabubCream whipped with sweet wine, sugar and lemon into a soft froth, a dessert of Tudor to Georgian England.

Curd and fermented milk

Dahi, lassi, kefir, skyr, amasi and the soured milks of herding peoples.

🇮🇪 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 Curd and fermented milkButtermilkThe thin, sour liquid left after butter is churned from ripened cream, drunk on farms and used in soda bread and biscuits.🇮🇸 Curd and fermented milkSkyrIceland's thick strained cultured milk, made from skimmed milk since the time of the sagas.🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇫🇮 Curd and fermented milkFilmjölkSwedish soured milk, mild and spoonable, eaten from a bowl with cereal or muesli at breakfast.🇫🇮 Curd and fermented milkViiliFinnish ropy soured milk with a velvet skin of mould, set at room temperature and eaten with a spoon.🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇵🇱 Curd and fermented milkQuarkSoft fresh curd of German and Central European kitchens, used in cheesecake, dumplings and with potatoes and linseed oil.🇺🇦 🇷🇺 🇧🇾 Curd and fermented milkRyazhenkaMilk baked slowly until caramel brown, then fermented into a mild, creamy drink of Ukraine and Russia.

Milk sweets

Khoa, rabri, kulfi, dulce de leche, doce de leite and the sweets cooked down from milk.

🇮🇹 Milk sweetsPanna cottaSweetened cream set softly with gelatine, a pudding of Piedmont served with caramel, fruit or berry sauce.🇬🇧 Milk sweetsJunketWarm sweetened milk set softly with rennet, an old English pudding once eaten with clotted cream and nutmeg.

Festival dishes

Pongal, kheer and the dishes cooked from milk and ghee for the cattle festivals.

🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 Festival dishesRice puddingRice cooked slowly in milk, eaten as Christmas porridge in the Nordic countries and baked or chilled across Europe.

Dung, hide and horn

Dung fuel and plaster, horn craft, hide and leather: the uses of a cow beyond food.

🇬🇧 Dung, hide and hornBone chinaWhite, translucent porcelain made with ash of cattle bone, developed in Staffordshire around 1800.🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇫🇷 Dung, hide and hornVellumFine calfskin limed, scraped and dried under tension, the writing surface of medieval manuscripts.🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 Dung, hide and hornDrinking hornA horn hollowed, cleaned and polished into a cup, used at feasts from the ancient world to the Georgian supra.

The weekly digest

Every Monday: seven cattle breeds you may not know, the cattle days of the week ahead, and one product explained step by step.