Creaming

1. Combining ingredients (typically butter and sugar) into a smooth paste.

2. Cooking meat or vegetables in a thick dairy-based sauce.

3. Mixing puréed corn kernels with whole corn kernels in the preparation of creamed corn.

Creaming is used to refer to several different culinary processes. In baking, it is the blending of ingredients with a softened form of a solid fat. When a dish is described as being "creamed", it may mean that it has been poached in milk, cream or a similar liquid. "Creaming" can also refer to the separation of cream from milk.