Half-and-half UK equivalent?

[Star555]

I received the book Cooking with Mary Berry from an American friend and it seems to be intended for an American audience. Many recipes such as the one for kedgeree (see attachment) call for half-and-half. What is the closest equivalent in the UK that I should use?

Half and half is semi skimmed milk I think?

It's like half cream, half milk.

There isn't a direct equivalent - I use 2/3rd single cream and 1/3 rd milk. Or depending on recipe and how decadent I want to be, all single cream

@NigellaSeed

Half and half is semi skimmed milk I think?

That's what I thought many years ago on a trip to the US and poured a load of it on my raisin bran. My arteries have yet to recover!

Oh right! Haha. Yes, so pretty much the opposite :p

I use single cream in recipes (or I did when I still bought cream)

Half and half refares to double cream and full fat milk evenly mixed. USA have it made on supermarket shelves up to a gallon in size. In the UK, simply mix as above.
Patrick Fitzsimmons

A GALLON ?!?

What on earth do they do with it as it must go off fairly quickly ?

American here, I’d say single cream a bit watered down with milk (not skimmed). It’s like a lighter version of single cream.

I always thought it was a non dairy creamer type thing.