Editor's note:This recipe is part of a specialThanksgiving menucreated by chefs Allison Vines-Rushing and Slade Rushing ofMiLarestaurant in New Orleans. It's the base for makingSpiced Crème Fraîche, the garnish for theirButternut Squash Soup.
Ingredients
Makes 2 cups
Step 1
In a small bowl, whisk together the cream and buttermilk and cover with cheesecloth. Let the mixture stand at room temperature for 48 hours. Discard the cheesecloth and remove the skin that has formed on top of the cream, discarding it as well.
Step 2
The crème fraîche will keep, in a covered container in your refrigerator, for up to 2 weeks.
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Back to TopEasy way to use extra heavy cream that is about to sour; except that I added 2 tablespoons of buttermilk rather than one. Commerical purveyors have lost a customer, I shall make my own Crème Frâiche from now on. Yum, rich!
Hunky
Catalina, AZ
2/9/2015