Creme Fraiche

How to Use Creme Fraiche - Creme fraiche has so many advantages over sour cream. Number one, you can whip it. You cant whip sour cream. It turns into this amazingly fluffy, beautiful whipped cream. You can add sugar if you going to serve it with desserts. You can do it savory without sweetening it, just a little pinch of salt and serve it with caviar, baked potato, whatever you used sour cream for.

Another huge advantage is that you can cook with creme fraiche and won't separate or curdle like sour cream. So if you are doing beef stroganoff or a cream sauce it incredibly, incredibly delicious in that. So there it is, creme fraiche. So easy to make at home, delicious, interesting to make, incredibly versatile. I really hope you give it a try. Enjoy.

Ingredeients

2 cups of heavy cream, use regular pasteurized, NOT ultra pasteurized.

3 tbsps of buttermilk

Directions

Heat the Creme Fraiche - On a low flame just warm it slightly, just tepid, warm to the touch, then turn off the heat. We don't want this hot, we just want to take the chill off. Add buttermilk, and what going to happen, you going to stir that in and the cultures in the buttermilk are going to turn the cream into creme fraiche.

Allow the Creme Fraiche to Thicken - Now this is going to take a while. Put it in a glass jar with a lid and leave it out at room temperature in a warm spot for 24 hours. Don't be scared the cultures in the buttermilk will protect it. Give it a stir occasionally, like every 6-8 hours. After 24 hours in a warm room it's going to be pretty thick. Not creme fraiche thick yet, but its going to be pretty thick. Give it a good stir and put it in the refrigerator for 24 hours and it will continue to thicken and turn into creme fraiche.

After 24 hours we're going to unveil this and its going to look like that creme fraiche I showed at the beginning. By the way, this will keep 7-10 days in the fridge.