Glace à la crème fraîche

‘Raw’ crème fraîche ice cream with lavender shortbread

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Nobody Does it Better: Why French Cooking is still the best in the world

By Trish Deseine

Published 2007

  • About

With a shelf life of only six days and therefore sold only in specialist dairy shops and in markets, ‘raw’ or unpasteurised milk and cream have a cleaner, deeper, more floral taste than their pasteurised counterparts. You can almost taste the hay and grass and wild flowers the cows have munched. Crème fraîche crue is a gorgeously decadent cream. Its colour is near to that of putty, and its 40 per cent fat content makes it flow slowly and heavily off the ladle like honey. It is mesmer