cooking with cream!
 

Can anyone help me with this cooking dilemma?!
Been here for 7 months and i thought i had mastered the grocery shopping until i tried to find double cream to use in a Jamie Oliver recipe. The only thing i could find was presidents choice extra thick double cream which is way too thick and half and half just curdled.
Thanks for any advice

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Try looking for Heavy cream.

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So far as I know, the thickest cream you can get here is whipping cream

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Hi, we had the same problem, we found Whipping cream 35% made by Beatrice, found next to the fresh milk, works a treat!!!

hope this helps :)

Linda

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It's no good for that recipe. Canadian whipping cream is full of chemicals and stabilizers. You cannot get heavy cream (30% or above) without chemicals and stabilizers in regular supermarkets. Try an organic dairy, or use sterilized Devon Cream in the jars mixed with a touch of whipping cream. That gives a good taste compromise. If the chemicals don't worry you, the Beatrice cream mentioned is also OK.

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This has actually just reminded me of one of my little pet peeves here and one I should've added to my "most missed list" from the UK.....proper double cream! I do buy that 35% whipping cream over here - the Beatrice stuff - but I can stand there for 15 mins with the electric whisk going full pelt and it doesn't thicken to more than pea soup consistency and as for piping in from a bag - forget it!! Does anyone else have that same problem? :confused:

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Add one tsp icing sugar and one tsp cornstarch. Piping cream at your fingertips. :)

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You can buy English double cream in Safeway - tiny jar, don't know what it's like but that is something I have seen!!!

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Ah wonderful tip....thnx dingbat....will give that a try next time :)

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Hi P.P.....for some reason I always forget about Safeway as another choice of supermarket! I usually remember the other 3 S's (Stupidstore, Save-On & Sobeys)!! But now I'll look out for the double cream in there.....BTW how much are they asking for it? Probably summat stupid like $4 for a dinky tub eh :rolleyes:
Jaycee

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I seem to rememeber my Dutch friend (who no longer lives here) used to use a little packet that you can buy in places like Safeway called "Whip It" and you add the packet to cream to thicken it. I have never tried it as we are not big cream people but it might be worth a try.

Pauline

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Yes it is extortionately priced.......probably 'cause it says it's English cream :D

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Try silken tofu. ;)

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Whipping cream is so chemical-laden here - I had a half carton I'd forgotten about in the back of the fridge that I found about 3 months later AND IT WAS OK!!!! IT HADN"T GONE OFF!! How gross is that!!

Oh, how I long for proper double cream! And proper mascarpone cheese - but that's another story ....

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Everything here is chemical-laden. Food doesn't have a "use-by" date; it has a half-life.