Yes, they are both clearly white and therefore no one will ever know the difference. Another possible substitue, egg whites
The fat content of creme fraiche is about 30% to 45% as it is made with cream soured with bacterial culture, but is less sour than US style sour cream.
While this is not real Cream Fraiche, but it tastes very much like it: Take firm sour cream (not the runny stuff) and and powdered sugar to taste.
Sour cream represents a fat component, so you can use butter, margarine, vegetable oil.
No! Creme fraiche has a thicker texture. A better substitution (if you are trying to duplicate creme fraiche) would be half and half with sour cream.
cream cheese is thicker than sour cream if you want to add sour cream to a sauce it will be ok on a low heat but sour cream will become very watery if too hot not good for making cheese cake and thick based sauces but jolly good on top of chilli con canre
I think you are talking about Crème fraiche (French for "fresh cream"). It is a soured cream containing about 28% butterfat and a pH of ~4.5. It is soured with a bacterial culture, but is thicker, and less sour than sour cream.
microorganisms are used in a wide variety of food products, including yogurt, cheese, sour cream, creme fraiche, cultured butter and cultured buttermilk.
According to the Dairy Council sour cream contains protein, carbohydrate, fat and ash totalling 27%. That leaves 73% as water. BUT, there are sour creams with different fat contents. As fat goes up, water goes down.
Crème fraîche, is the Western European counterpart to sour cream. Originally a French product, today it is available in many countries. It is traditional to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries.
Creme fraiche, but it is really sour cream. And Fleurette, which isn't fresh cream either. We have an apartment in Menton by the Italian border. And right across the border, a few hundred yards from us, you can get real cream. Basically, the French don't have it. Very strange...
If cold sour cream is added to a hot dish too quick, it will curdle. You have to temper the sour cream first by adding some of the hot dish to the sour cream slowly stirring, then add the mixture to the hot dish
DO NOT reheat anything with a dairy additive unless it's cheese, or something ususally heated. Sour Cream is meant to keep cool - warming it will turn it runny.- don't heat the sour cream.