Elle & Vire Professionnel Excellence cooking cream in a 1 L pack, dairy cream with 35.1% fat, produced in France, for pan sauces, pasta, gratins and soups.
Elle & Vire Cooking Cream, Excellence comes in a tall white carton with the Elle & Vire name in red beside a blue Eiffel Tower and a red, white and blue stripe, and Professionnel below. An arc reads produced in France over a drawing of a tree, a fence and a cow, and a yellow panel carries crème cuisson, Excellence, cooking cream, with a round badge for cream 35.1% fat. The lower front shows seared scallops on a pale cream sauce with chives, and the base gives 1 liter, 990 g, net wt 34 fl oz and dairy cream. As general background, cream is the higher-fat layer of milk, sold in grades defined by its butterfat content. Commonly, chefs pour cooking cream into pans after searing mushrooms, chicken or fish, simmer it to reduce into a sauce, and use it for pasta, gratins, risotto and soups. The photos show cream poured into a pan of mushrooms, and salmon with a dill cream sauce beside penne in cream.
