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the smug aristocrat of milk, rising to the top while everyone else just blends in
means The rich, fatty part of milk that rises to the top, or by extension the very best portion of anything.
from From Old French 'cresme,' which braided together two threads: Late Latin 'cramum' (likely from a Gaulish word for the skin on milk) and Church Latin 'chrisma,' the sacred anointing oil — a cousin of 'chrism' and 'Christ.' So the word for the fatty top of your milk carries a faint echo of holy ointment, which suits its rather exalted opinion of itself.
- fat content
- Heavy cream packs at least 36 percent milkfat
- whip physics
- Whipping traps air in a fat-protein scaffold
- rises naturally
- Less dense, it floats up before homogenization stops it
- butter pivot
- Over-whip and it collapses into butter
- word origin
- From Greek khrisma, meaning anointing oil
devonshire cream tea — traditional afternoon tea in devon, england where clotted cream is served with scones and jam
philadelphia cream cheese — brand created in 1872 in chester, pennsylvania, now owned by kraft and sold globally