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Sour Cream
When recipes from Grandma's Kitchen call for sour cream in a cake recipe, does that mean sour dairy cream or the other sour cream that you use on baked potatoes?
--Kay
Hi Kay!
Recipes on Grandma’s Kitchen (and most all other recipes you’ll encounter) that call for sour cream mean you should use the containers marked “Sour Cream” that you’ll find near the cream in your grocery’s dairy case--and that you probably use on baked potatoes. (Cream that has gone sour in your refrigerator should be discarded.)
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