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What happens if we sweeten and jar some yogurt and cook it in a pot of simmering water the way you cook sweetened condensed milk to make dulce de leche?
Well, nothing worth repeating, that's what. It took a long time for the sugar to caramelize -- I suppose I didn't sweeten it as MUCH as sweetened condensed milk -- and the yogurt became unpleasantly grainy and dry.
I should skim through McGee to see if there's a solution: at what temperature will yogurt do that, and is it a higher temperature than the temperature at which sugar caramelizes? Maybe it could be cooked longer at a sub-boiling temperature, in other words. I suspect not, but I feel compelled to speculate.
Yogurt starts to get weird at like 90 Celsius, long before anything caramelizes. I don't think dulcing the leche before you turn it into yogurt would work either -- the same denaturing of the milk proteins would happen.
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