my bil & oh are both muppets!!!

[lucysmam]

They each picked up 2L of double cream on their way from my MIL's yesterday, thinking it was full fat milk.

I've just gone to use it in my cuppa & discovered that it's not milk at all!

Can I do something with it, either sweet or savoury, which I can then freeze? So that it doesn't go to waste as we don't often have pudding-y type things for it to be eaten with.

The use by date on it is 28-02-09 so it doesn't have to be done right this second,just wondered what I can do with it so I don't end up chucking it in the bin

Thank-you

make butter with it and scones with the butter milk

freeze the cream in smaller bags if needs be, and then use it as and when

how do I make butter with it bronze? (imagining lots of hard work here)

I didn't know I could freeze cream, thanks Minky, I will freeze some of it in a little while

I think it is supposed to be better to beat cream before you freeze it.

see here

I'll have a look at that in a sec, cheers chatname

Does your MIL have a farm?

lol, nope, it was on the shelf in the corner shop where the blue top 2L bottles of milk are. At least that's their excuse

If I beat it before I freeze it . . . will I still be able to use it in some recipes I've found, like pies & potato & leek gratin?

make ice-cream!

If you want use it as it is rather than in cooking, then perhaps it is best to beat it before freezing, I don't know, I haven't tried, but I often freeze cream if some is about to expire, and it is thick and stiff when defrosted, so no use if you want to use it fresh, but makes absolutely no difference if you want to use it in cooking.

what I meant was, uit may be thicker when defrosted, but it soon thins on cooking, and it still retains its cream-like qualities, i.e. doesn't curdle or do anything strange.

Thanks Minky, I was thinking to use in cooking rather than as fresh so it would be fine in that case. Otherwise I'll be making puds for the next week & can't be ar£$d tbh

BlueCow, fab idea! It never even occurred to me to do something like that but will be investigating shortly