Can I use sour cream instead of shamenet (Israeli)in baking ?!
Can I use sour cream instead of shamenet (Israeli)in baking ?
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2 days ago
I am pretty sure that sour cream will work,but I just want to know if there is something even closer.For the record,Cottage cheese and riccota cheese are very very different.
Answers:
yes, but be careful that the instructions really call for shamenet (hamutza). Shamenet metuka refers to sweet cream.
The consistency of the sour cream may be a little different than shamenet that you could buy in Isreal but they are essentially the same.
A interesting tidbit on the side: in Germany an alternative name for sour cream (saure Sahne) is Schmand which came from schamanet through Yiddish.