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Cream

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

verbCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, cream means: To beat fat, usually butter, with sugar until the mixture becomes lighter and airy.

In Turkish: tereyağı ve şekeri çırparak kabartmak

How it is used

As a baking verb, cream usually takes butter and sugar as its objects.

Example sentences

  1. Cream the butter and sugar before adding the eggs.

    The verb names an aerating step rather than adding dairy cream.

  2. The biscuits spread more when the butter was over-creamed.

    The modified verb describes excessive beating at the creaming stage.

Common collocations

  • cream butter and sugar
  • creaming method
  • whiskA tool made of loops of wire on a handle, used to beat air into eggs and cream or to mix sauces smoothly. As a verb, to whisk means to beat with this tool.
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.

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