heavy cream
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Where a recipe calls for cream, it is heavy cream.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Let’s say you find chicken thighs, carrots, half a box of penne, an almost-empty jar of harissa, some butter and heavy cream.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025
What’s next, Doncic was a fat, lazy, beer-drinking, hookah smoker feasting on a 77-ounce New York strip steak with a side of the Slovenian specialty of sliced potatoes layered with cheese and heavy cream?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
Other fats such as heavy cream or coconut oil work, too.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
It was thick with leeks, carrots, barley, and turnips white and yellow, along with clams and chunks of cod and crabmeat, swimming in a stock of heavy cream and butter.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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