No real cream or lard
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No real cream or lard
Can't seem to get hold of lard to make a hot water crust pastry for a veal and pork pie, have asked the butcher (in french gulp!!!!!!!) NO LARD,as for fresh cream forget it, my neighbour(french) thinks the cream we get in france is fresh cream as in a cream cakes ,would love to let him taste a fresh cream cake!
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Re: No real cream or lard
Can't seem to get hold of lard to make a hot water crust pastry for a veal and pork pie, have asked the butcher (in french gulp!!!!!!!) NO LARD,as for fresh cream forget it, my neighbour(french) thinks the cream we get in france is fresh cream as in a cream cakes ,would love to let him taste a fresh cream cake!
As for "saindoux", if you asked for "lard", it means bacon in French. Try a "charcutier" (specialized pork butcher), but I can't guarantee that you'll find any for sale. I'm afraid you're probably going to have to experiment with other fats for that recipe... (You can't get suet here, either, by the way)
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Re: No real cream or lard
Lard we have in the supermarkets here, I bought it by mistake once And Fresh cream is in the Supermarkets as well as Lait Cru (Unpasteurized Milks) Fromage Cru (Cheese from Unpasteurized Milks) it is usually around the eggs and UHT Milk, In some of the Carrefours you can buy Clotted cream as well.
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Re: No real cream or lard
Go to the butchery counter and ask for "Graisse de boeuf" and you will get lard (sometimes free). Try also "Graisse de canard". Duck fat -superb flavour,to use in your frying pan.
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Re: No real cream or lard
But have to agree with you that graisse de canard is delicious to fry things in!
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Re: No real cream or lard
Confess I don't know what pork scratchings are (would they be "crépinettes"?), but there's a recipe for lapin à la moutarde, rabbit smeared with mustard and wrapped up in that skin (OH calls it "crépine") to stop the rabbit going dry in the oven.
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Re: No real cream or lard
Lard we have in the supermarkets here, I bought it by mistake once And Fresh cream is in the Supermarkets as well as Lait Cru (Unpasteurized Milks) Fromage Cru (Cheese from Unpasteurized Milks) it is usually around the eggs and UHT Milk, In some of the Carrefours you can buy Clotted cream as well.
Don't know where you are but I wish we could get it ,I've looked round the UHT milk for cream bit all alas in vain.My cousin has lived in Paris for 60years, she is a very good cook and still goes on about the fact you cant get cream.
regards Kit Kat
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Re: No real cream or lard
Crème fraîche épaisse
Lard : Saindoux -
Lard in French is also : Poitrine fumée.
Bon appétit !! (Bon app' in slang)
Lard : Saindoux -
Lard in French is also : Poitrine fumée.
Bon appétit !! (Bon app' in slang)
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Re: No real cream or lard
you mean to say you've left some for the rest of us
http://www.isigny-ste-mere.com/EN/p_cremes.php
better be some of that red in E.Leclerc for when I get back
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Re: No real cream or lard
you mean to say you've left some for the rest of us
http://www.isigny-ste-mere.com/EN/p_cremes.php
better be some of that red in E.Leclerc for when I get back
http://www.isigny-ste-mere.com/EN/p_cremes.php
better be some of that red in E.Leclerc for when I get back