dianeec

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

Butch Cassidy

Try looking for Heavy cream.

Purley

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

Linda P

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

dingbat

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.

Ruby Murray

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?

dingbat

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

Piff Poff

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

Ruby Murray

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

Ruby Murray

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
Jaycee

westchilt

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

Piff Poff

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

hot wasabi peas

Try silken tofu.

TrishP

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 ....

Souvenir

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