Quick Clotted Cream
Quick Clotted Cream
This recipe for English clotted cream served with scones for afternoon tea will be simple and fun for kids to make. They won't need to heat the cream; they'll just shake it until it's the right consistency, between whipped cream and butter, and if it becomes butter, that's fine, too! Enjoy it with our Lemon Berry Scones or Perfectly Peach Scones!
Happy & Healthy Cooking,
Fun-Da-Mentals Kitchen Skills
- seal :
to close tightly, keeping filling inside.
- shake :
to rapidly and vigorously move a covered container filled with food up and down and side to side to combine ingredients and create a different consistency, such as shaking whipped cream to make butter.
- stir :
to mix together two or more ingredients with a spoon or spatula, usually in a circle pattern, or figure eight, or in whatever direction you like!
Equipment Checklist
- Plastic jar + tight fitting lid
- Liquid measuring cup
- Measuring spoons
- Rubber spatula
Ingredients
Quick Clotted Cream
- 2 T whipping cream **(for DAIRY ALLERGY sub dairy-free/nut-free whipping cream OR coconut cream at top of can of coconut milk)**
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch lemon zest
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 T granulated sugar
Food Allergen Substitutions
Quick Clotted Cream
- Dairy: Substitute dairy-free/nut-free whipping cream OR coconut cream at top of can of coconut milk.
Instructions
Quick Clotted Cream
fill + seal + shake
Fill a plastic jar with 2 tablespoons of whipping cream (it should be 1/4 full). Add 1 pinch of lemon zest and 1 pinch of salt. Tightly seal with the lid and have your kids shake, shake, shake until the cream almost becomes butter. It may take up to 5 minutes to make the clotted cream. Just when you feel like the cream will no longer move in the container, right before butter is made, you’ve made clotted cream! If you over shake it, it will become butter, and that is yummy, too!
stir + enjoy
Stir in 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 teaspoon lemon juice and enjoy with scones, like our Lemon Berry Scones or Perfectly Peach Scones!
Hi! I'm Heavy Cream!
"I'm not a lightweight, like half and half. I'm full of fat and pour out much thicker. You can also call me 'heavy whipping cream.' The names refer to the same thing! Did you know that I can transform myself with your help? I turn into a fluffy topping to put on cakes and pies when you whisk me as fast as you can (or you can use a mixer). However, I go through an even bigger change when you shake me really hard in a covered container for a few minutes—I turn into butter!"
- Heavy cream is the thick, high-fat liquid at the top of raw milk. It naturally separates from the milk, rising to the top. It is skimmed off and then pasteurized to kill bacteria, which makes it safer to drink and lasts longer.
- Heavy whipping cream is made up of about 36 percent fat. In comparison, regular whipping cream is 30 percent fat, and half-and-half averages to about 14 percent.
- Heavy cream whips up better as a topping if the cream is cold, and pouring it into a cold mixing bowl before whipping also helps.
- The Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously whipping cream by hand is 1,434 and was set on August 22, 2015, by employees of the Swiss company Nordostmilch AG in Bürglen, Switzerland.
- A dollop of whipped cream is great on fruit, cakes, and pies. The tallest recorded dollop so far was over 7 inches atop a mug of hot chocolate!
- Some of the foods heavy cream is added to include cakes, frostings, ice cream, salad dressings, sauces, soups, sour cream, scrambled eggs, chocolate ganache, crème fraîche, panna cotta, and homemade cheeses.
- One-half cup of heavy cream contains 43 grams of fat, 3 grams of protein, and the minerals calcium and phosphorus. It has more of the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K than lower-fat dairy products. Fat-soluble vitamins are more easily absorbed by your body when eaten with fat.
History of Clotted Cream!
- Clotted cream (also called scalded cream, Cornwall or Cornish cream, or Devonshire or Devon cream) is believed to have originated in either Cornwall or Devon counties in England, although it's not clear when. Farmers may have made it to avoid wasting milk.
- A traditional way of making clotted cream is to heat the cream in a shallow pan using a steam or water bath. As it cools, the fat in the cream will rise to the surface and create clots, which are then skimmed off.
- Clotted cream is similar in thickness to soft butter and tastes like cream. It is often served with scones and jam for "cream tea" or "afternoon tea."
- "Cornish clotted cream" has a Protected Designation of Origin under European and United Kingdom law. It must meet specific requirements, including having at least 55 percent milk fat.
Let's learn about England!
- England is ruled by a Monarch, a Prime Minister, and a Parliament. Windsor Castle is the oldest royal castle in the world that is still being used by the royal family.
- England is on the island of Great Britain, along with Wales and Scotland. It is also part of the United Kingdom, which consists of those three countries and Northern Ireland.
- Did you know that there's no place in the UK that is more than 70 miles from the sea?!
- Stonehenge is a construction of immense stones that the early inhabitants of what's now Wiltshire, England, began building around 3100 BCE. The final sections were completed around 1600 BCE. Scientists are still not sure how or why they built it. One theory for its purpose is an astronomical observatory. It is very popular with tourists.
- Other popular tourist spots in England include the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and Parliament (Palace of Westminster), the Roman Baths and the city of Bath, and the Lake District.
- London, the capital city, wasn't always called that. In the past, its name was Londonium.
- England took part in the briefest war in history. They fought Zanzibar in 1896, and Zanzibar surrendered after just 38 minutes!
- There have been several influential English authors, but perhaps the most well-known is William Shakespeare, who wrote classics such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet.
- English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web.
- The British really like their sandwiches—they eat almost 11.5 billion a year!
What's It Like to Be a Kid in England?
- Most schools in England require students to wear a school uniform.
- Sports kids play include football (soccer), cricket, rugby, tennis, netball (similar to basketball), and rounders (similar to baseball). They also play video games, watch the telly, and ride bikes or skateboards.
- Boxing Day is a unique holiday kids celebrate in England the day after Christmas, December 26. The official public holiday is the first weekday after Christmas if Boxing Day falls on a weekend. When the English created the holiday, it was the day to share the contents of alms boxes with the poor. Today, it is mostly a day off from school and work, although some small gifts may be given out to family and employees, or collected to give to the poor.
- English kids may have different names for everyday items also found in the United States. For example, a kid will call his mom "mum." Their backyard is a "garden." A big truck is called a "lorry," and the trunk of a car is a "boot." Biscuits in the US are closest to the British "scones," and cookies in England are "biscuits." A TV is usually called a "telly." Bags of chips are referred to as bags of "crisps." French fries, like those from a fast-food hamburger place, might be called "fries," but if they are thicker, like the ones typically served with batter-fried fish, they're called "chips" (fish and chips). Finally, kids call the fish sticks they might have for lunch "fish fingers.
