I went on a hunt for clotted cream the other day, and found a couple of websites that import some clotted cream. Bought a few small containers (the one serve type), and I just got an email with a tracking number! Woohoo!
As Alton Brown said, “I’m not saying it’s the best thing in the world for you. I’m saying it’s the best thing in the world.”
And it’s true! Clotted cream is super yummy. And I also recently got an exciting new recipe for cream tea biscuits (otherwise known as scones). Yay!
You know that serveral grocery stores in the City sell it, right? I’m pretty sure Fresh Fields (or is it now Whole Foods?) on the West Side (30s, I think) sells it. The nice kind I got with my cream tea in Exeter. There are a couple of gourmet-type stores which sell it, too. And I’m pretty sure you can get the authentic Brit stuff from Tea & Sympathy Carry On. You know, so you don’t have to pay shipping and handling.
What’s clotted cream? Is it like buttermilk?
What’s clotted cream? Is it like buttermilk?
It falls somewhere between butter and whipped cream… There’s some arcane method of making it where you parboil the milk and skim the top off. Consistency-wise, it’s slightly firmer than whipped cream, but not by much.
Also, super yummy.
*all interested now*
ooh must try
oh and do please post the recipe if it turns out well. i love scones!
Scones (real ones, not the nasty, brick-hard ones they sell at most places in the States) slathered with clotted cream and jam are one of my favorite treats. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!
Oh, the grocery store to the West is Whole Foods Market, 250 7th Avenue at 24th Street. It’s the same grocery store I used to have in Greenwich, and I know they stock authentic English clotted cream. In my store, it was at the opposite end from the milk/soy milk, near the refrigerated “fresh” pasta and less-fancy cheeses.
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