Anyone know?? "canned cream" in Southern cookbook

DDD

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My mailman just hollered in to ask "the cook" :wink:
"What is canned cream?" :surprise: I haven't got a clue! LOL

He is using a "Southern cookbook" recipe for catfish. It tells
him to use various seasonings and canned cream to prepare the fish before frying. I told him my "guess" would be evaporated
milk in cans and to avoid the sweetened condensed canned milk.

Anybody know something else that a "down home" cookbook would
refer to as canned cream?? He comes back by in about two hours
so I'll flag him down if I'm wrong. DDD
 

Lothlorien

Active Member
There is also a thing called "table cream" very sweet and very thick.

I would think that condensed or evap milk would be fine. Soaking any type of meat/chicken/fish in milk for a while usually tenderizes it.
 

Shari

IsItFridayYet?
My grandma's sugar cookie recipe calls for "sour cream" (not the variety you dip your chips in) and she always made it by putting vinegar in a can of carnation, so my guess is that carnation is the "modern" substitute.
 

DDD

Well-Known Member
I'll find out how it tasted Monday. Our mailman is one fine specimen of manhood. He and his equally attractive wife have
three sons and spend 1/2 their life at the ball fields and the
other 1/2 in church..lol. He's quick witted, a devoted Dad and
after ten years of being acquainted...now I find out he cooks, too. Wowser! (Somehow I am surprised by that, although I know
he is a very hands on Dad. Very interesting.) DDD
 
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