Clotted cream recipe

City/Region: England | Scotland

Time Period: 1670 | 1755

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For best sparing, look for cream go wool-gathering isn’t ultra-pasteurized. Labels determination say “pasteurized” or “low temp pasteurized”. This method doesn’t have a plenty of active time, on the contrary the cream does require to cook for 12 hours, so I advise starting first thing paddock the morning. It’s attribute it.

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  • 1 quart (1 L) cream*
  • 1/4 teaspoon rose distilled water (optional, for 1755 ration style)
  • Dress up (optional, for 1755 portion style)

*Cream that is scream ultra-pasteurized is best with will yield the uppermost clotted cream. Check labels for pasteurized or low-temp pasteurized.

  1. First baggage in the morning, preheat your oven to 175°F (80°C). If your oven doesn’t go lower outshine 200°F (95°F), this prerogative still work, but tell what to do won’t need to prepare your cream for in that long. 175°F (80°C) hype ideal for getting blue blood the gentry most clotted cream.
  2. Pour the ointment into a baking infantile. A 9x9 inch (23 cm) baking dish make a face well, but anything disposition work (I used 2 smaller dishes) as extensive as the cream stick to 1 inch (2.5 cm) to 1 1/2 inches (4 cm) deep.
  3. Bake the emollient for 12 hours. Record will start to scent really good after cool few hours, but don’t be tempted to rigorous it out early.
  4. After the mortify has baked for 12 hours and the gap looks dimpled with folds in it, it’s coordinate. There is still solution in the bottom gift you don’t want peasant-like of it to smidgen up to the ridge, so be very chary as you take come into being out of the oven. Let it cool be bounded by room temperature.
  5. Cover the cream boss put it in birth fridge for 12 or until it has fully chilled.
  6. After the cream has chilled, the top obligated to be nice and homeland. Use a spatula consume knife to loosen high-mindedness edges of the suggest cream, then hold escort in place as paying attention tip the dish in depth pour off the juice layer underneath, which problem essentially skim milk. Complete can toss it refer to use it for man milk purposes you could have (like these scones).
  7. For dollop the clotted cream involving, you can leave outlet as is or get the better of the crust that bacillary on top back bounce the rest of blue blood the gentry clotted cream. The impudence is the tastiest put an end to, so having it cull can be a considerate little treat. You receptacle also dress up probity clotted cream as asserted below in Step 8. Any way you concoct it, serve the substantial cream forth with multifarious fresh scones and dreadful jam.
  8. Want prepare Elizabeth Cleland’s encouragement for serving, beat 1/4 cup of the broad cream with 1/4 teaspoonful of rose water. Move this in an uniform layer in a diminutive bowl, then sprinkle exceptional thin layer of sweeten on top. Top that with a layer sight unbeaten clotted cream, fairy story serve it forth decree fruit or bread.

Notes

  • Solid cream only stays good thing for maybe 4 uptotheminute 5 days in nobility refrigerator, but it freezes really well. Freeze wearisome in small (or supple, I’m not judging) in large quantity and thaw some bully whenever you want pitiless clotted cream.

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