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> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 19:28:04 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>>> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 18:47:37 +0100, "Ophelia" >
>>> wrote:
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>>>>> On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 17:53:50 +0100, "Ophelia" >
>>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>>I don't have a very sweet tooth and all this sweet stuff discussed
>>>>>>puts
>>>>>>me
>>>>>>off. I have never seen, or heard of, flavoured cream or even
>>>>>>sweetened
>>>>>>cream (although that is possibly because I have no interest to look
>>>>>>for
>>>>>>them) I will have a look next time I go shopping but I don't have a
>>>>>>lot
>>>>>>of
>>>>>>hope of having anything to report.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The cream I buy is 'double cream'! It is thick but it pours easily
>>>>>>and
>>>>>>I
>>>>>>use it either in cooking, or just a pour a wee amount over jelly (or
>>>>>>whatever)!
>>>>>
>>>>> Double cream is the equivalent to whipping cream over this side of the
>>>>> pond. Pourable or whippable
>>>>>
>>>>> Next time I go shopping I am going to look for those other creams,
>>>>> can't say I have ever seen them, far less tried them. They must be in
>>>>> the canned food section, not there much, because I certainly haven't
>>>>> seen them in the dairy section.
>>>>
>>>>Report back?
>>>
>>> Planning on going on Tuesday, will definitely do so. I have heard of
>>> Reddi whip and of course Cool Whip, seen that in the freezer near
>>> ready made pie crusts etc.

>>
>>Never seen anything like that here. I shall try to remember to look,
>>although to be honest, I don't actually have any interest in them.

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> I do remember Nestle used to make some sort of cream in a little can,
> but we didn't partake - for me - it's Devonshire Cream, no subs but
> not worth having here, very expensive, imported from Devon in a small
> jar and doesn't taste remotely like the real thing.
>
> For awhile there was a woman who sold proper cows milk, I would buy
> that and make my own DC but it wasn't long before the health people
> shut her down




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