Crème Fraîche

Preparation info
  • Makes

    450 ml

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Open Rhodes Around Britain

By Gary Rhodes

Published 1996

  • About

What is crème fraîche and how does it taste? These are questions that we have all asked at some point. Crème fraîche is a cream product that has been brought to Britain by the French. Most French chefs, and now British ones too, use crème fraîche to finish sauces, savoury and sweet.

Crème fraîche has many qualities and advantages that we shouldn’t ignore. Firstly, any double or clotted creams have an average fat content of 48 per cent, whereas crème fraîche has just 30 per cent. In