Curd snack

Curd snack (Russian: творожный сырок, romanized: tvorozhniy syrok, lit. 'tvorog little cheese'), cottage cheese bar or curd cheese bar is a type of sweet dairy food made from glazed or unglazed curd cheese with or without filling.

Curd snack
Cross-section of a chocolate-glazed curd snack with poppy seeds
Alternative namescottage cheese bar, curd cheese bar
TypeDairy product
Region or stateBaltic states and Eastern Europe
Main ingredientscurd cheese and sugar
Ingredients generally usedVarious glazes and fillings
VariationsTúró Rudi, Syrok, Pasaka
Food energy
(per serving)
140 ~ 350 kcal

They were originally created and became ubiqitous in the Soviet Union. Nowadays curd snacks are popular in the former Soviet Union, such as the Baltic states, Russia and Ukraine, as well as in some former Soviet-alligned ones, such as Hungary (túró rudi), Poland, Romania and Mongolia.

Production

The main part of a curd snack is made from curd cheese, which is mixed with sugar, sweeteners or other ingredients and milled into a homogenous paste that is pressed into the desired shape and filled with jam or other fillings. The formed bars then pass through the so-called 'glaze waterfall' that coats them in chocolate or another type of glaze. Finally, the curd snacks are cooled in a cooling tunnel and packed.[1]

History
A modern Latvian curd snack Kārums with a kiwifruit glazing and strawberry filling

The mass production of curd snacks began in the 1950s in the Soviet Union and they quickly gained popularity. Initially, they were flavoured with simple ingredients, such as vanilla, cocoa and raisins, but since the 1990s the curd snacks have become more varied and also contain ingredients such as cookie bites, apricot, strawberry jam and boiled condensed milk.[2]

In 2012, Kārums curd snack was voted the favorite product by the Latvian consumers, receiving 20% of the votes.[3]

See also

References
  1. Cornall, Jim (October 19, 2018). "Glazed curd cheese bars – ripe for expansion?". Dairy Reporter. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
  2. Drey, Victoria (October 19, 2018). "Glazed cottage cheese bars: The most popular Soviet dairy sweet made at home (RECIPE)". Russia Beyond. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
  3. "Latvian buyers' favourite product – curd snack Kārums". Baltic News Network. May 13, 2020. Retrieved June 14, 2014.

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