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Curdled food and cooked hog in the Mongol home (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yoghurt

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'curdled food' is the definition.
'yoghurt' can be an answer for 'food' (yoghurt is a kind of food). I am not sure about the 'curdled' bit.

'cooked hog in the mongol home' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram (letters cooked into a new form).
'in the' is an insertion indicator.
'mongol home' becomes 'yurt' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'hog' with letters rearranged gives 'ogh'.
'ogh' going inside 'yurt' is 'YOGHURT'.

'and' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for yoghurt that I've seen before include "culture" , "Fermented milk product" , "milky dessert" , "Tory? Ugh! (anag)" , "Food made from curdled milk" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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