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Kalvdans

Kalvdans is a classical Swedish dessert. It is made out of unpasteurized colostrum milk, the first milk given produced by a cow after giving birth.[1]

In preparing the dessert, the colostrum milk is carefully heated.[1] Due to the high levels of protein in the colostrum milk, it coagulates and hardens when boiled (much like eggs do). Thus the dessert gets a pudding-like consistency.[2]

Due to Swedish health regulations, unpasteurized milk may only be sold directly from the farms. Thus the capacity to produce kalvdans is somewhat limited.[2]

Similar desserts exists in other countries. In Iceland, a pudding called Ábrystir is made out of colostrum milk. In England colostrum milk, or beestings, was traditionally used for puddings. In India junnu is a dessert made out of colostrum milk from buffaloes.[2]

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