Pour hot cream into egg mixture and then return it to saucepan.

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Cosmopolitan's health and beauty editor Laura Bacharach recommends face-lifting creams which she says are "a more sophisticated version of egg whites and haemorrhoid cream used by Hollywood film stars".

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Now grab a rubber spatula and fold the egg whites in to cream mixture (Folding means moving the bottom of the mixture over the top with little agitation to the stuff in the bowl, which will deflate the egg whites).

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As well as mock cream and myriad uses for spam and dried egg, it devised this recipe for mock goose, complete with stuffing.

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Key limes are yellow, and that is the colour of an authentic Key lime pie, which is nothing more than a custard of Key lime juice, sweetened condensed milk and egg yolks in a cracker crust, then topped with meringue or whipped cream.

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