Random Observations- Two Crotchety And One Upbeat

[poliphilo]

1. I'm never going to make one of those lists of things I'm thankful for because my mother told me when I was small that if you make too much noise about how happy and fortunate you are God will squash you like a bug.  Just look what he did to Job. Or maybe it's not God, it's the Brownies. Same difference. The point is there are powers out there that are very, very jealous of human success and only a fool would provoke them.

2.  What's this Cool Whip stuff you Americans put on your pie? It sounds disgusting. Whatever happened to cream?

3. John Howard's gone. That guy was a toad. I'm just so happy for all my Australian friends.

Comments

It Comes in a Tub

[msjann65.livejournal.com]

Cool Whip comes in a tub, already mixed. It has good consistency and good flavor, but - I repeat - it is second best to real whipped cream.
By the way, what is "clotted cream" -- is it what we call "Sour Cream" in the USA (whipped cream without the sugar and vanilla, soured on purpose so that it wont go bad?) We have it on baked potatoes, potato pancakes, etc. -- also use it as a base for dips.

Re: It Comes in a Tub

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

mmmm...no. Clotted cream is like what rose to the VERY TOP of milk before it was pasturized, homogenized, or whatever. It's very very thick, spreadable (I had it with currant jam on hot scones) and there really is nothing like it.)

Re: It Comes in a Tub

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Clotted cream is very rich and thick. I imagine it's produced in a milk churn. It has the consistency, pretty much, of butter- only it's not butter.

Sour cream (we have that too) is something else again.

Re: It Comes in a Tub

[msjann65.livejournal.com]

we used to get milk with the cream on top when I was a child. It was not very thick, though, just about the consistency of heavy cream (which is probably what you refer to as "double" cream). We were not allowed to drink that cream - it was set aside for desserts and for coffee and tea for "company".

Re: It Comes in a Tub

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We used to be allowed to drink the "top of the milk" as a special treat.