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I have seen recipes over the years that call for, among other things, heavy cream. I never know what to buy. There are no containers in the dairy section marked "heavy cream". I've seen whipping cream (which my mom used to buy) and "table cream", and half-and-half of course. But what the hell do I buy when the recipe says "heavy cream"?

Shara_Lunison has proposed that we make butterbeer while the girls are here over Thanksgiving weekend, and her recipe calls for the stuff, and I promised her I'd get some. I've got 'til Wednesday night. :Help:

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Post by DukkhaWaynhim »

See the write-up for heavy cream here:
www.food.com/library/heavy-cream-361

If you can't find a product with that name, use the nutrition facts label to find the cream that most resembles the one at the link above.

Tangent -- My home version of butter-beer is simply regular root beer (I use A&W) that has been spiked with a little bit of Butterscotch Schapps. It's swell!

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Heavy cream means that the butterfat content is in excess of 36%. Basically, what I advise you do (if your stores do not have anything labeled heavy cream and there is no explicit fat percentage listed) is to buy the whipping cream with the highest fat content based on comparing the nutrition labels.

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Whipping Cream will work fine. It has in all my recipes which call for it.
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Here it is usually labeled "heavy whipping cream."

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Most stores have their own as well, such as Publix.

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Just used some to make an omlette this morning. It adds a creamy smoothness to the eggs.
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Thanks, you guys! I knew I could count on you. :)
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It's so weird that you don't have heavy cream in the supermarkets.
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Maybe we do and I've just never seen it. Any time I've looked for it, it's not there.
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*drool* I love real whipping cream. (that is all.)
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