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Las Montanas Market chongos, crema and cheese

One of the cremas is called jocoque which this site writes

 

www.babylon.com/definition/Jocoque/English

 

“A Mexican style sour cream. It has equal or less fat content than the American sour cream. Some labels describe it as salted buttermilk, but its thicker; some call it a thin sour cream. The taste of jocoque ranges from mildly tangy to refreshingly sharp”

 

It looked wonderful and rich. Here’s a recipe using it.

 

donalupeskitchen.com/2008/05/enchiladas-de-jocoque-white-...

 

There was also chongos zamoranos, which this site describes as

 

mexicobob.blogspot.com/2008/06...

 

“a sort of sweet cottage cheese. It is made from milk and cinnamon and sugar and it is very well known in Mexico. It was supposedly invented by a nun in a convent who needed to salvage some milk that had gone sour and had begun to separate into curds and whey.”

 

When I worked in Mexico in the 90’s, I bought a can of chongos zamoranos which sat on my shelf for a decade and I never opened it because I wasn’t exactly sure what it was. I had some recently at a Mexican chain in Guatemala and liked it a lot. I’ll have to try these.

 

 

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Uploaded on June 13, 2011
Taken on June 12, 2011