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Originally Posted by gemy  Jeanie you have not lived until you have tasted Englands creams. They have double cream, single cream, devon cream. The closest we could get here is if you know a milk dairy farmer. When I lived in an ashram we had a dairy farmer who supplied our cream and milk - heavenly. I might be wrong but the double cream is the thickest cream that rises to the top of the milk.
This is the real deal... Double cream is even heavier than our whipping cream, single cream closest approximation would be what we call in Canada Table cream 018% or some such. |
Oh, it all sounds so delicious!!! I'm starving for all of it!
My sister and I took a class called "The English Way of Tea" together and the veddy proper English teacher taught us about and provided many samples of English teas and talked endlessly about the difference in the teas, jams, eggs and dairy products there and here, providing some samples for tasting and cooking from an English restaurant or bakery in Dallas who supposedly had many of their baking supplies, dairy, eggs overnighted-in from England, in addition to teaching us the "proper" way to make tea and set up the table, how to pick our teapots, china, linens, etc., and prepare for a basic afternoon tea, which we had every class.
We made butter and cucumber and other finger sandwiches, baked our own scones and little cakes during most of the lessons and learned how to slice meats and breads very, very thinly! My scones were almost always a wreck(way too dry) when we baked them but some turned out wonderfully and teacher was pleased. She provided several English jams and marmalades almost each lesson and we enjoyed everything enormously. We learned about high tea as well as a cream tea. We had a ball during the classes, must have gained 5 lbs. or more each and ended our lessons, which began in late January through early April, with a tea the class attended by the fireplace at The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas.
I've forgotten most of what I learned in that class but remember discovering my ever-abiding love for Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk in that class and have been addicted to it ever since - how like an American to have that be one of my abiding memories from English tea class. Still, one day I hope to take tea in England and eat chicken in or very near Bresse.