recipe lingo ..

nalani

nalani

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ok, this might sound like a really dumb question to a lot of you but you know when a recipe calls for "cream", do they mean whipping cream? heavy cream? or evaporate milk, which is what we call "cream" here? Talk about language barriers :D
 
nalani said:
ok, this might sound like a really dumb question to a lot of you but you know when a recipe calls for "cream", do they mean whipping cream? heavy cream? or evaporate milk, which is what we call "cream" here? Talk about language barriers :D
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My guess would be heavy cream. Usually if they mean whipping cream or evaporated milk they will be specific. :cool:
 
It's not dumb. I get confused by recipes all the time. I don't know the answer to this one either. I would also guess heavy cream. Definitely not evaporated milk, unless it's the local church bazaar recipe book.
 
Evap milk is a cool ingredient, though. I use it in cream soups. It's not as rich but a jigger of sherry fixes that wee problem right up. I am not opposed to cream, it's just that it tends to go bad before I use it all and evap stores loverly.
 
Oh unless it is a british cookbook, in britain when it says Cream it means 18% also known as single cream.

I would say if they don't specify the norm seems to be 18%, so light, or table cream.
 
Thanks guys! Well, I'm not making anything right now... it's just that I always fall into the 'I really want to make this but I have no idea what they mean by cream' category :D

There are other words or ingredients that have stumped me but I can't think of them off the top of my head .. I will remember then and write them here though so y'all can help me cook LOL
 
paul_valaru said:
Oh unless it is a british cookbook, in britain when it says Cream it means 18% also known as single cream.

I would say if they don't specify the norm seems to be 18%, so light, or table cream.
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ummm.. errrr... you totally lost me. What's 'light' cream and 'table' cream? Here, we call evaporated milk 'cream' and put it in our hot cocoa and teas .. we also call half-and-half 'cream' but that's for coffee - way too expensive to put in cocoa.
 
tonksy said:
Evap milk is a cool ingredient, though. I use it in cream soups. It's not as rich but a jigger of sherry fixes that wee problem right up. I am not opposed to cream, it's just that it tends to go bad before I use it all and evap stores loverly.
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people here buy evaporated milk by the cases sometimes .. that's how much it's used here just for regular stuff. Often times the elders will mix it with water to use as regular milk .. tastes awful LOL
 
nalani said:
ummm.. errrr... you totally lost me. What's 'light' cream and 'table' cream? Here, we call evaporated milk 'cream' and put it in our hot cocoa and teas .. we also call half-and-half 'cream' but that's for coffee - way too expensive to put in cocoa.
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18% fat is light cream, or just cream.
 
GrandCaravanSE said:
I have never see any of my creams say any percent of anything on them, and i work in a grocery store. well i am not sure but it might be because i live in america.
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Really?

Maybe that is the confusion, here it lists right on the container, in bold the fat content.
 
paul_valaru said:
I doesn't in the states?
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Of course it does. I'm a bit worried that someone who works at a grocery store doesn't know this.

'Splains why I sometimes can't find what I want at the market, I suppose.

edit: Typically you have to look at the side of the carton.
 
paul_valaru said:
18% fat is light cream, or just cream.
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so what is "table cream"? Is that like cream you put in tea and stuff? This is weirdly interesting to me :D No wonder the Maoris asked "what's this?" when we were hosting them a long time ago and we had evaporated milk out on the table for their teas and cocoa .. and had a strange look when we said, "cream" :D
 
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