heavy cream

Example Sentences

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Where a recipe calls for cream, it is heavy cream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Let’s say you find chicken thighs, carrots, half a box of penne, an almost-empty jar of harissa, some butter and heavy cream.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025

What are some of your favorite uses for heavy cream in general?

From Salon • Dec. 21, 2024

These are typically added to lower-fat or plant-based milk to help create a silky mouthfeel, replicating the thicker texture of heavy cream.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024

Or they go to one of the hole-in-the-wall tea shops and drink tea in paper cups with heavy cream, asking the waitress in Bengali to bring them bowls of sweet yogurt and haleem.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri