The Only Ingredient You Need To Transform Heavy Cream Into Sour Cream
NEWS
By ELIAS NASH
If you don't have sour cream on hand, you can approximate the same texture and flavor with a simple substitute: heavy cream combined with lemon juice.
Use one to two teaspoons of lemon juice per cup of heavy cream. Up to a quarter of a cup of milk per cup of heavy cream can also help to better approximate the consistency.
Cover the mixture loosely with a kitchen cloth and let it rest for eight hours, though a full 24 hours is preferable. Keep it somewhere cool away from direct light.
After the overnight thickening process is complete, keep your homemade sour cream in the fridge in a sealed container, just as you would with the store-bought stuff.
