heavy cream
Americannoun
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Where a recipe calls for cream, it is heavy cream.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Use cold heavy cream and a splash of vanilla — or almond extract, if you’re feeling lush.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 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
I tasted the heavy cream and I thought: Ugh, this must be how milk tastes in America!
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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