What is cream?

Question

When making an alfredo sauce it says to add cream? What the heck is cream? and if the answer is half and half how do you make that? is that half water- half milk?

Answer 1

It is a fatty milk...not sure how to make it.
Half-n-half if 1/2 milk and 1/2 cream.
You can buy cream in the dairy case, next to the milk.

I made a alfredo sauce with regular milk and it was delicous, not as thick as if were using cream, but it works.

Answer 2

I agree with the person who said go for the cream when making an alfredo. If alfredo sauce is thin and runny, there's no need to bother eating it. Good plan to make it yourself, it's worlds better than almost any you'll find in a restaurant.

Cream is skimmed or separated from milk, and is what makes high butterfat ice cream so good. Mix it equally with milk, and you've got half and half. No point in going low cal when choosing these things: the low-fat half and half in the stores all contains high-fructose sweeteners, so you lose the fat and add sugar, and I think the calories are the same.

Enjoy that alfredo! I used to make it and it's unbelievably good.

Answer 3

Half and Half is sold at the grocery store right by the milk. It is usually used as a creamer for coffee. It says Half and Half right on the container.
When talking about Alfredo Sauce, although I have never made it, I believe you would want to use a heavier cream, and that is also sold near the milk and half and half, and it should say right on the container, Heavy Cream.

Answer 4

Go to the grocery and go to the dairy aisle? There will be a little half pint and pints of what is called light cream and heavy cream. Cream is like milk but has a HUGE fat ratio. Goo stuff and doesn't curdle like milk does when adding acids and high heat. For alfredo you can use half and half and its cheaper than cream. Same spot in the grocery.

Answer 5

In whole milk cream is what rises to the top once the milk sits. Cream is used to make butter, whipped cream and all kinds of good things. Half and half is half cream and half milk. Both can be found in the dairy case.

Answer 6

Cream is actually the butterfat of whole milk. When it is processed milk is stripped of this rich cream. Even the regular milk sold in stores have little cream content in them ; even less in 2%,1%,1/2%, or skim (NO Cream} milk. Cream rises to the top of whole milk and can be skimmed off. It is what makes real country butter, and real (not cultured - yuk!) buttermilk. What you get in the stores as light or heavy cream has been processed and pasteurized. State laws won't let unpasteurized milk be sold anymore.. Such a shame !

Answer 7

Half and half is an American product that originates from a mixture that was half milk and half cream. It has a fat content of around 10-12% and is used as a pouring cream in coffee and over desserts. Its relatively low fat content means it cannot be whipped.

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Answer 8

Cream is the fattest part of fresh milk. You buy it at the grocery store. Surprisingly enough, it is labeled "Cream". Half and Half is half milk, half cream, also sold in stores everywhere, and yes, labeled Half and Half.

You need to get out more.

Answer 9

cream is also called heavyor sweet cream, and you can use half-half too. It comes in containers like half-and half is in.
You dont have to add water to half-half.
It just means that the content of the cream is half milk and half cream and it is lighter.
It is also used for deserts and baking, mostly you beat or 'whip' it then until it is fluffy.