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Default Replacing Heavy Cream with Half and Half

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:51:57 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 19/08/2012 2:34 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
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> >
> > Thanks very much - that's what I was looking for. Neither of us here
> > make sauces very often and the online reading seemed to talk about
> > replacing the cream with part milk and part butter or using evaporated
> > milk, neither of which is the way we think we want to go. We'll mix up
> > some cornstarch and water and keep it on hand as we prepare the dish -
> > we've decided to try it with half-and-half next time.
> >

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>
> Personally, I would be looking at substituting a white sauce for the
> cream sauce.


I'd probably make a velouté using vegetable broth and take it from
there.

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