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heavy cream

American  

noun

  • heavy creams
    plural
  1. thick cream having a high percentage of butterfat.


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After an hour of gentle simmering, I finished with a splash of apple cider vinegar, a stream of heavy cream and a dusting of parmesan, the final sauce glossy, fragrant, rich and unexpectedly bright.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025

Syd also throws in heavy cream at some point, although the episode doesn’t show the proportions she uses.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2025

Where a recipe calls for cream, it is heavy cream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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

As the pasta cooked, Grandma and I made the cheese sauce by adding the grated cheeses to milk and heavy cream in a pot.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

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