Yesterday a friend of mine brought by a jarful of lovely, snowy heavy cream from the local dairy, spoils from his job at a coffee shop. I used some of it to make my favorite fleur de sel caramels, but I've still got a cup or so sitting in the fridge. And I can't figure out what to do with the darn stuff! This is the same problem I have whenever I buy cream to cook or bake with and don't use the whole carton - the rest inevitably ends up souring, unused, next to the jar of capers. I am determined to find a better solution. So I've turned, of course, to the trusty interwebs.
Love Food, Hate Waste has a few ideas - creamy tomato soup, quickie pasta carbonara, apple crisp. The Chowhound message board has some good thoughts - cream scones, mashed potatoes, bread pudding, Alfredo sauce, herbed sauce for fish. I especially like the idea of make-and-freeze soups and pasta sauces, as baking scones with the leftover cream seems like it might just result in wasted cream and wasted flour and sugar. Cooks.com has some of my favorite ideas, with suggestions for recipes utilizing slightly soured cream and milk, like Boston brown bread and sour-cream cake filling.
What are your favorite ways for using up leftover cream?
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