lee58uk

I bought my UK recipe magazines over with us, but a lot of the recipes need creme fraiche. Does anyone know if there is an equivalent here I could use, as in every supermarket I've asked in, they just look at me blankly??!

Lees's OH.......thanks

iaink

Its almost like a foreign country sometimes isnt it


Add a little sour cream to whipped cream, let it stand for a while before using it.

or you can follow this one:
http://homecooking.about.com/cs/atoz...me_fraiche.htm

Oakvillian

Unless the delicacy of the flavour is an absolutely vital part of the recipe, you can almost always just use sour cream instead of creme fraiche - particularly for stirring in to casseroles and sauces at the end of cooking. You may have to try a couple of different brands as they all have slightly different consistencies and flavours. I've used sour cream as a straight swap in both sweet and savoury dishes and nobody's complained yet...

lee58uk

Thanks, thats been a real help...

Novocastrian

And creme fraiche is so quintessentially English, n'est-ce pas?

Steve_P

But it still sounds funny when you say it with a scouse accent.

Oakvillian

Hmm, things sounding funny in a Scouse accent....

I forget what book it was - several years ago now - where the author spent way too much time working out the best phrase to say in a scouse accent so as to amuse a Southerner. The eventual answer: "the dance of the sugar-plum fairies."

I was working in Runcorn at the time for ICI, in a vain effort to pre-empt student bankruptcy, and tested this on some of my local-ish colleagues. In my youthful exuberance I couldn't understand why only I and my fellow gap-year students (from Kent and Berkshire) found this even slightly funny. Umbrage was taken, pints had to be bought to restore good humour to the lab.

Still, the staff canteen was ace for a hungry teenager: pie & chips and two veg, steamed pudding and custard (the spotted dick was memorable) for a a quid.

rwin

Okay, now I'm curious. What does this sound like in English when said with a Scouse accent?

iaink

Nothing sounds like english when said in a scouse accent, surely? And I should know, I used to be a (pseudo) scouser, but Im alright now!

rwin

You use to look like this?

iaink

Calm down Calm down. Deydodoughdondeydough.


No, I left when I was 16 so no tash, and the accent left a few years after that rather confusingly

I was speaking in a pseudo scouse accent as a 6 year old within 2 weeks of moving up north from deepest darkest posh surrey...my mum could have died!

rwin

So you didn't hang out with these guys either then?

iaink

From time to time. Anfield is a happy memory. Didnt go often though.

Got anymore sad git regional stereotypes you want to drag out? Ive scotish ancestors if you want to have a go at kilts and haggis too Maybe I should mention mounties and plaid shirted lumberjacks eh!