crème légère

English translation: light cream

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French term or phrase:	crème légère
English translation:	light cream
Entered by:	margaret caulfield

15:28 Aug 15, 2009

French to English translations [PRO]
Cooking / Culinary

French term or phrase: crème légère

What do you call créme légere in English (UK)? Is there a similar type of cream sold in supermarkets? Or perhaps, could it be that the French term commonly used in the UK?

Rosa Foyle
Germany

light cream (pls see below)

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Selected response from:

margaret caulfield
Local time: 22:16

Grading comment

For this particular case, where the term was being translated out of German, I have to say that light cream (reduced fat) fits better - reduced fat cream as . However, thanks to Clair and others for provided their insight into the meaning of single cream.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +10

single cream

Claire Cox

4 +4

light cream (pls see below)

margaret caulfield

5 -1

Reduced Fat Cream

Colin Morley (X)

5 -2

a light version of crème patissière

B D Finch

Summary of reference entries provided

Pastry cream lightened with whipping cream

Anne-Marie Grant (X)

Discussion entries: 6

cmwilliams (X)

United Kingdom

12:19 Aug 16, 2009

Hi Rosafoyle - yes, as I suspected, it may be the German creme fraiche they mean. As a matter of interest, I've just seen a French brand (Isigny Ste Mère) that is made in Normandy and sold here in the UK. It seems to have the same ingredients mentioned by Jacqui - Cultured half fat cream, thickeners (modified maize starch, milk protein) and stabilisers. The carton is all in English and it's just called Crème Fraiche and then underneath it says it is half fat. Other supermarkets such as Sainsburys call it 'Half Fat Creme Fraiche'. Hope this helps.

Rosa Foyle

Germany

ASKER

12:06 Aug 16, 2009

Hi Jacqui,
I am actually translating a cookbook from German into English (UK)and they are referring to the creme legere sold in Germany. Your comments have been extraordinarily helpful. Since it maybe that the creme legere that they are referring to could in the recipe is the Oetker brand of low fat creme fraiche. I hadnt thought about that before. All of your comments and remarks have been very helpful. Many thanks to all.

Jacqui Audouy

United Kingdom

10:29 Aug 16, 2009

My carton of said product was fabriqué en Normandie, for what it's worth.

cmwilliams (X)

United Kingdom

context

10:22 Aug 16, 2009

Hi - Could you tell us if the source text is from France? I've just noticed that 'crème légère" seems to be used in Germany and I just wondered if this is what you might mean: http://www.oetker.de/oetker/html/default/mson-537k3q.de.html If so, It looks like it would be more like a light version of créme fraiche. Supermarkets in the UK sell 'half fat creme fraiche' which has 15% fat. Single cream is liquid and cannot be whipped.

Karen Vincent-Jones (X)

United Kingdom

Yuck!

08:49 Aug 16, 2009

This sounds really nasty - full of starch and seaweed derivatives and unspecified 'thickeners'. Makes you wonder what they put in the 'creme épaisse'.

Jacqui Audouy

United Kingdom

Help or hindrance

07:01 Aug 16, 2009

My carton of crème légère contains 12% fat, amidon transformé, stabilisants, émulsifiant, épaississant (carraghénanes)...which makes it a kind of adulterated half-cream I would think!!!

Answers

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +10

single cream

Explanation:
is probably the nearest equivalent, I'd have thought. Crème légère has 15% fat, whereas single cream has 18% and half cream (haven't seen that for years though!) has 12%. I certainly don't think we'd use the French term although both crème fraiche and fromage frais have slipped into UK English.

Claire Cox
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

cmwilliams (X)

53 mins

-> Thanks

neutral

Colin Morley (X): In my experience in the UK single cream is just thinner than double cream and not necessarily lower in fat or "lighter"

1 hr

-> If you actually check the definitions of the various types of cream, you'll see that single cream has 18% fat

agree

Karen Vincent-Jones (X): Yes, single cream, as opposed to double cream/whipping cream in the UK

1 hr

-> Thanks

agree

Lorraine Bathurst: yes it has roughly half the fat of double cream 18g / 100 for single as opposed to 34 / 100 for double

1 hr

-> Thanks

agree

Kari Foster: I think so too

2 hrs

-> Thanks

agree

Tony M: Yes, the fat content determines how it will whip; single cream, like crème légère, can't be whipped. Colin is I'm afraid wrong about single/double, they do, very specifically, refer to the fat content.

2 hrs

-> Thanks Tony - my point entirely!

agree

Astrid Elke Witte

6 hrs

agree

Linda Sansome (X)

17 hrs

agree

Lianne Wilson

1 day 16 hrs

agree

George C.

2 days 1 hr

agree

Carol Gullidge: definitely for the UK. Light cream is US usage afaik

2801 days

18 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

light cream (pls see below)

margaret caulfield
Local time: 22:16
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

jean-jacques alexandre

22 mins

-> Thanks, jean-jacques!

agree

Saoussane: In the US, cream is sold in either light, regular or heavy form

51 mins

-> Thanks, Saoussane!

agree

Jessica Cade: yes light creme

54 mins

-> Thanks, Ingrid, but it is "cream" and not "creme" in English.

neutral

Colin Morley (X): I think there is disparity between US and British English here - In the UK single and double cream vary according to thickness, but neither is necessarily lower in fat content

58 mins

-> But I didn't mention "single cream", Colin!

neutral

cmwilliams (X): The asker wanted the term used in the UK and 'light cream' is not really used here.

1 hr

neutral

Lorraine Bathurst: 'light 'isn't so common in the uk

1 hr

neutral

Tony M: I think this is the US term, I'm not familiar with it in the UK; Colin is i'm afraid wrong about single/double, they do, very specifically, refer to the fat content.

2 hrs

neutral

B D Finch: "Light cream" is US English and is not a term covered by the UK Cheese and Cream Regulations 1995. So I think it is not legal to sell cream in the UK as "light cream".

6 hrs

agree

MatthewLaSon: I think it's just light cream, for the US market. I'm not sure about what it would be in the UK. But it couldn't be that complicated, could it? lol

1 day 1 hr

-> Thanks, Matthew!

agree

bozhana: On my carton, it is written light cream and creme legere (sorry for the accents) but this is Quebec.

2 days 14 hrs

-> Thanks, Bozhana!

disagree

Carol Gullidge: we dont have "light cream: in the UK!

2801 days

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Reduced Fat Cream

Explanation:
Or you could say low fat cream, but how low is 'low'? Reduced is probably a safer bet.

Colin Morley (X)
France
Local time: 22:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 23

6 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): -2

a light version of crème patissière

Explanation:
"Crème légère
* Pour : 1 ou 2 tartes
* Durée : 30 minutes
* Difficulté : facile
Ingrédients pour Crème légère :
* 350 g de lait
* 80 g de sucre
* 2 jaunes d'œuf
* 30 g de farine
* 100 g de crème fleurette"
http://www.meilleurduchef.com/cgi/mdc/l/fr/recettes/creme_le...

The following site gives a recipe in English that includes "crème legère":
2http://cooksforcooks.com/april07/2007-04-10-tuesday/brioche-...

To correct a point made in a comment by Colin Morely and any other misunderstandings, the terminology for cream in the UK is laid down in the 1995 Regulations:
"clotted cream the cream is clotted and contains not less than 55% milk fat;
double cream the cream contains not less than 48% milk fat;
whipping cream the cream contains not less than 35% milk fat;
whipped cream the cream contains not less than 35% milk fat and has been whipped;
sterilised cream the cream is sterilised cream and contains not less than 23% milk fat;
cream or single cream the cream is not sterilised cream and contains not less than 18% milk fat;
sterilised half cream the cream is sterilised cream and contains not less than 12% milk fat;
half cream the cream is not sterilised cream and contains not less than 12% milk fat."
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/SI/si1995/Uksi_19953240_en_1.htm

Thick single cream complies with the single cream fat content but has been processed to make it thick.

I have found it absolutely impossible to find either whipping cream or double cream in France. What goes by the name of "crème" is either cultured or has thickeners added. I finally managed to find some cream that looked like it should be whipping cream and nearly wore a hole in the bowl trying to whip it. It seems like a conspiracy by the people who sell that horrid "Chantilly" in aerosols.

Various products, such as crème fleurette and crème fraîche have "legère" tacked on the end to indicate a lower fat content.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 22:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 43

Reference comments

25 mins

Reference: Pastry cream lightened with whipping cream

Reference information:
http://rubbernecker.typepad.com/pastryproject/2007/05/sessio...

A number of cookery sites describe crème légère as a mixture of pastry cream and whipping cream

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Note added at 19 hrs (2009-08-16 11:17:50 GMT)
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pastry cream = crème patissière

Anne-Marie Grant (X)
Native speaker of: English

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