I just want my clotted cream!
By Colene
@cpefley (1941)
San Jose, California
January 7, 2017 4:01am CST
I know this sounds silly to some, but I have a huge obsession with English culture. I love watching football (the kind you play with your feet), going to English pubs, eating scones with clotted cream and jam...
Finding clotted cream is more difficult than you might imagine, if you don't live in the UK. If I can make it to San Diego, I will buy a jar, but it costs so much! Even on Amazon, they jar is $7.87 (£6.40) at its cheapest. Plus, I don't have any idea how long it will take to get here, and I'm almost out!
And no, butter isn't the same. My friends ask if it tastes like butter. Not to me, it doesn't. I heavily prefer the taste of clotted cream to butter. How about you? (Yes, I just bought another jar on Amazon lol)
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@JudyEv (382021)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jan 17
We used to make our own clotted cream although we called it scalded cream. We had as much cream as we could eat as we had milking cows and separated the milk so we had cream and we would also scald the milk sometimes to have clotted cream. And you're right, it doesn't taste anything like butter. :)
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
7 Jan 17
Clotted cream is traditionally made either by warming a full cream (and un-pasteurised) milk, usually over a steam or water bath, until the cream thickens and rises to the top or by separating the cream (either in the normal way or as above) and heating it for a long time (8 hours) at a very low temperature (180F) in the oven. If you can obtain full-cream milk or buy double cream, preferably unpasteurised or only lightly pasteurised, you could quite easily make it yourself. Actually, I imagine (though I've never tried it) that it would be possible to make it in a mason jar in a slow cooker - ideal conditions for maintaining a temperature of 180F for 8 hours!
Here's a recipe I found which might help:
Clotted cream is so easy to make at home. Please don't think that I'm saying that clotted cream is only easy for experienced bakers to make. Clotted cream is...
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 17
THere are two websites, and I am not sure if these will be any help to you.
One is britishcornershop.co.uk THey are in the UK but deliver to the US, nothing cold though.
Then there is one in the US, out of Pennsylvania.
I use both of these sites, though it's been awhile since I'v ordered from the first one. There are other sites, but these are two I've used personally and can vouch for.
Check your local, more specialty like grocer. Like whole foods perhaps? I work for a grocery store that is like a step down from whole foods, but we carry some British specialty items, including some cold case items.
British food online available in the USA, The British Food Depot
