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[kaberett]

A continues to find it somewhat perplexing that my reaction to cheap supermarket Jersey double cream is "I can buy a LITRE of CREAM for THIRTY-SIX PENCE I am DOING THAT", but he certainly doesn't seem to object to the consequent "I'm sad, it's 9pm, you're doing a lot of housework, how do you feel about profiterole?"

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[nanila]

I dunno about anyone else but I am always, always up for profiteroles.

[nanila]

Also your attitude towards vats of cheap cream is entirely right, yes yes. Another good use, I find, is making rich tomato soup with that + tinned tomatoes + stick blender + salt + pepper. You can add other things if you want but it's really the cream that makes it luxurious.

[kaberett]

yeppp

(in "weirdly good" news, I once somewhere in the Alps had a peach-and-tomato soup with basil foam.)

[nanila]

Peach and tomato! I must try that.

I sometimes put a dollop of basil pesto in the aforementioned tomato soup, if I have some on hand. Mmm.

[legionseagle]

*All* the things you can do with cream. Lemon posset for one, that's a favourite. And I agree with the soup ideas; proper chowders (in vegetarian versions with leeks if need be.)

[flippac]

Heh. This is exactly why I would in fact understand the reaction :-)

[redsixwing]

I find A's perplexment* perplexing. :D

*perplexion?

[alexwlchan]

Even without the profiteroles I might buy cream at that price. :-D

Luckily I am not often in the dairy aisle, or when I am I’m in a hurry. Too much of a good thing, etc.

(My Mum grew up in Devon, and it was not uncommon for family members to eat clotted cream straight from the packet, or eat (drink?) pouring cream from a soup spoon. I seem to have inherited their taste for it.)

Edit: And suddenly I realise why my last batch of soup tasted off. I forgot to add any cream. Oops.

[kaberett]

alas my supermarket rounds routinely involve getting stuck in front of the Bargain Bin, because I Am My Papa's Grandchild. :-p

CLOTTED CREAM STRAIGHT FROM THE PACKET IS ENTIRELY CORRECT. I was v good and did not buy half a kilo of the stuff when down in Cornwall at the end of December, when it was going cheap.

[niqaeli]

I mean, hell, who doesn’t have that reaction to cream that cheap?! I mean, goodness, baking and cooking options aside, fresh whipped cream is frigging delicious with so many things and so trivial to make if you possess a stand mixer with a balloon whisk! (Which I do, at any rate.)

cn spiders

[kaberett]

Ha, I have both a handheld electric whisk and a proper old-fashioned Kenwood Chef A100, because Papa was in the habit of Collecting them, particularly if broken, and then engineering them back together. I am probably going to become the Familial Custodian of the Kenwood Parts, once we excavate the cellar that much; mine was cobbled together from three or four different places in the mouldering ancestral pile, and was claimed by right of conquest i.e. I was graciously given it provided I washed all the dead spiders off (and out) of it.

Re: cn spiders

[lebannen]

This sounds ... so very familiar.

For a number of years my mother had a Kenwood with only one speed, due to a lack of access to spares in Rural Nowhere (buying them would possibly at that stage have been cheating, I don't know). Apparently even that level of repair was difficult, and eventually it blew up sufficiently that she got an actual new one.

Hmm, will this work? [Insert picture of lots of old outboard engines here]

... yes, the main focus of the collection is more marine engineering than domestic. When I was visiting the other week I managed to get rid of a total of one biscuit tin of Rusty Ferrous Shite and one bag of Non-Metallic Shite. And some books that had probably been in a barn for the last thirty years, if they belonged to [OtherRelative's first spouse].

Re: cn spiders

[kaberett]

I was very, very grateful for this anecdote and commiseration, and I regret not managing to say so sooner!

[ewt]

CREAM!

Yum.

[vass]

Mmm, profiteroles.