sour cream

sour cream
noun
artificially soured light cream
• Syn: ↑soured cream
• Hypernyms: ↑cream

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noun
: cream soured by the addition of a culture of lactic acid bacteria that produce lactic fermentation

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cream soured by the lactic acid produced by a ferment.
[1815-25, Amer.]

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sour cream noun
Cream soured by a ferment
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Main Entry: ↑sour

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sour cream UK US noun [uncountable]
thick cream with a sour flavour
Thesaurus: types of milk and creamhyponym types of food or drinkhypernym

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sour cream,
a thick cream made sour by a culturing process, used as a dressing for salads and certain other dishes.

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n. cream that has been deliberately fermented by the addition of certain bacteria

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noun [noncount]
: a thick cream that has a sour flavor

He put sour cream on his baked potato.

— called also (Brit) soured cream

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ˌsour ˈcream [sour cream] (BrE also ˌsoured ˈcream) noun uncountable
cream that has been made sour by adding bacteria to it, used in cooking

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  • sour cream — noun uncount thick cream with a sour flavor …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • sour cream — also .soured cream BrE n [U] cream which has been made thicker by adding a type of ↑bacteria …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • sour cream — sour′ cream n. coo cream soured by the lactic acid produced by a ferment • Etymology: 1815–25, amer …   From formal English to slang

  • sour cream — ► NOUN ▪ cream deliberately fermented by adding certain bacteria …   English terms dictionary

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