Cream

:''This article is about cream, the food item. There are articles on the colour Cream (colour), the 1960s rock band Cream (band) and the nightclub Cream (nightclub).'' Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of raw milk before homogenization. In the raw milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top. In the industrial production of cream this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called "separators". In many countries cream is sold in several grades depending on total fat content. Cream can be dried to a powder for shipment to distant markets. Cream produced by cattle (particularly Jersey cattle) grazing on natural pasture often contains some natural carotenoid pigments derived from the plants they eat; this gives the cream a slight yellow tone, whence the name of the yellowish-white colour cream (colour). Cream from cows fed indoors, on grain or grain-based pellets, is white. In the US, cream is usually sold as: * Half-and-half (12% fat) * Whipping cream and whipped cream (30%) * Heavy cream, or heavy whipping cream (36%) * Manufacturer's cream (40%), mostly available from food-services supply wholesalers rather than groceries Also common in the US is sour cream, which is cream that has been subjected to a bacteriuml culture that produces lactic acid, producing a sour taste, and that thickens the cream as well. [[Image:Hot chocolate mug with whipped cream.jpg|thumb|225px|Whipped Cream served atop hot chocolate.]] In the UK, cream is usually sold as: * Half cream (12%) * Single cream or Light cream (18%) * Whipping cream (35%) * Double cream (48%) In the UK, clotted cream is a very high fat (55%) product processed with heat. Cr�me fra�che (a product with a French name and widely available elsewhere) is a heavy cream slightly soured with bacterial culture, but not as sour or as thick as American sour cream. Mexican crema (or cream espesa) is similar. Cream with 30% or more of fat can be turned into whipped cream by mixing it with air. This roughly doubles the cream's volume as air bubbles are captured in a network of fat droplets. (Whipped cream is said to have been invented in 1671 by Fran�ois Vatel for a banquet in honor of Louis XIV of France, though it's likely that it was actually known long before this.) If the whipping is continued, the fat droplets stick together and form butter; the remaining liquid is buttermilk. Cream is the principal constituent of butter. Ice cream is made with milk, milk proteins (casein), cream and flavorings, frozen while stirring to limit the size of the ice crystals. Premium ice creams usually contain more milk fat. The term cream or creme is used in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics to refer to a variety of substances of a consistency similar to or thicker than that of cream, such as chocolate cream or moisturizing cream. ==See also== * Sour cream Dairy products

Cream

Hum, I don't think this type of disambigution is appropriate here. As a general rule we should only do this level of disambiguation when two ''widely known'' and used terms share the same word. An example would be Mars which is nearly as widely known as being the Roman god as it is for being the 4th planet from the sun. Iv'e never heard of the band named cream so I doubt that the band's name is really nearly as widely known as is the food item. For example, It would be foolish to have Paul Simon page made into a disambiguation page just becasue their is a congressman from Illinois with the same name. Having a link to Paul Simon (politician) at the bottom of Paul Simon would be the preffered way to go (better yet - find out what the middle name of the politician is, and if it is different from ''the'' Paul Simon, then have an article named Paul X Simon for the politician -- where "X" is his middle initial). This project aims to make more than 100,000 articles and probably more -- if we took disambiguation to the extreme, then nearly all the articles about famous people and things would have to be turned into disambiguation pages since there probably are numersous other far less famous, yet still important historically, people and things with the same names. We should avoid the use of parenthetical disambiguation whenever possible (especially for the most widely known use of a word). I think this is the case here; compare a Google search for [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=cream+-%22Eric+Clapton%22 ] with [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=cream+%22Eric+Clapton%22 ]. You get more than 800,000 more hits by excluding "Eric Clapton" than including the name. If there is no objection, I will move cream (food) back to cream and place a link to cream (band) at the bottom of cream's page. --user:maveric149, Saturday, May 25, 2002 I moved the food item back but put a link to the band at the top of the article. --user:maveric149 *What?!?!!?!?!?!?! You've never heard of Cream(band)?!?!!?! Yet you know who Paul Simon is.... Cream was the biggest band around back in the 60's, excluding the beatles. They were much bigger than The Stones or The Doors or The Who. There is no way that maveric149 likes rock. --User:71.112.132.42 04:02, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Cr�me fra�che == I grew up in France but now live in California. If a recipe calls for cr�me fra�che, is there any combination of creams I can use to substitute? If so (or if not), please update the article. User:Vikreykja 08:58, 25 May 2004 (UTC) (amateur chef) Sour cream is the best cream? I happen to agree, but it seems a bit subjective, no? there Re ser\h;ah;hc9h i

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