In the pantry · 46 uses
cream
Fat that carries flavor and will not split the way milk does, which is why it can be reduced hard. It also flattens seasoning, so a cream sauce almost always wants more salt and more acid than you expect.
38
dishes and drinks that need it
8
more where it is worth adding
66%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Nothing dominates: the most common companion, onion, appears in only 26% of them, so this is an ingredient that gets around.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole library. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Quickest dish · 10 min
Berry cream cups
Frozen berries, warm cream, honey, lemon. A five-minute posset cousin. Don't boil the berries into jam unless you mean it.
Quickest drink · 3 min
B-52
Coffee liqueur, amaretto and cream layered by density. Pour each over the back of a spoon and it stacks in three visible bands.
Built on it · 38
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
- B-523m
- Grasshopper3m
- Toasted almond3m
- White Russian3m
- Brandy Alexander4m
- Orange vanilla cream soda5m
- Cacao flip6m
- Irish coffee6m
- Berry cream cups10m
- Ramos gin fizz12m
- Creamed spinach15m
- Lemon posset15m
- Creamed mushrooms20m
- Eton mess20m
- Peas ham pasta20m
- Rajas con crema20m
- Trifle20m
- Vanilla cream set with berries20m
- Jäger skillet25m
- Leek cream pasta25m
- Penne alla vodka25m
- Butter chicken30m
- Green bean skillet casserole30m
- Mustard cream chicken30m
- Turkey mushroom pasta30m
- Pork in mushroom cream35m
- Swedish meatballs35m
- Ajiaco40m
- Chicken blanquette40m
- Crème brûlée40m
- Mushroom skillet quiche40m
- Semla40m
- Chicken pot pie45m
- Midwest hotdish45m
- Potato, bacon and cream bake45m
- Gratin dauphinois50m
- Ham potato gratin50m
- Jansson's temptation50m
Worth adding · 8
These work without it. They work better with it.