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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

milk skin

What's the exact word for skin(top layer ) formed on after boiling the milk ?
  

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It's called scum . It's unfortunate that the term has come to describe a person of low character as well.

— Philip

  • It's called scum .
  • It's unfortunate that the term has come to describe a person of low character as well.
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It's called scum. It's unfortunate that the term has come to describe a person of low character as well.
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I disagree, it is not scum. Scum is the bubbling and frothing from something not very clean such as soap scum in a bath or potatoes that have been boiled but not washed properly prior to doing so

The film on top of boiled milk or rice pudding, say, is called a skin.
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Cream is the end product of a process using milk
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Maggie StarlingI disagree, it is not scum. Scum is the bubbling and frothing from something not very clean such as soap scum in a bath or potatoes that have been boiled but not washed properly prior to doing soThe film on top of boiled milk or rice pudding, say, is called a skin.
My American Heritage Dictionary offers no definition such as this for skin. It d
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This may be more a British thing, but I also would call it the skin, especially on top of rice pudding or custard.
Typical British schoolyard exchange:
I'll knock your block off!
Yah! You couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding!
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Oxford gives this as a meaning of Skin: A thin layer forming on the surface of certain hot liquids, such as milk, as they cool:Victoria was skimming the skin off the saucepan of milk.
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Blue JayOxford gives this as a meaning of Skin: A thin layer forming on the surface of certain hot liquids, such as milk, as they cool:Victoria was skimming the skin off the saucepan of milk.
So while Vicki is skimming the skin, I'm skimming the scum. I can accept that. Perhaps the bigger question is: what do we do with the skin/scum?
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Philip Perhaps the bigger question is: what do we do with the skin/scum?
Throw it away! I've always disliked the skin off milk, rice pudding and such. At one time I had only ever had coffee with milk in it, and never cared much for it. In France we got unpasteurized milk and boiled it, which resulted in nasty little floating bits. I started drinking black coff
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A scum is a reference to filth as you pointed out earlier and probably for the reasons I mentioned ref dirty liquids.

If you were to look up 'milk skin' instead, you will find that it refers to a liquid.

The Cambridge Dictionary offers this - all nouns - British English:

Skin
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