Question for my British friends (or anyone else who knows)

[fenchurch]

I've been pulling a lot of really good recipes from the UK Weight Watchers website (as well as the WW sites in Australia and Canada) and I've gotten pretty good at deciphering food names where they differ, but there's one ingredient that has shown up a lot that I have no idea what the American equivalent might be: low-fat soft cheese.

Mostly, I'm wondering if this is a specific product or if it's just any soft cheese that happens to be low fat?

(I'm still rather annoyed by the number of yummy looking recipes that call for low-fat crème fraîche, since we've only recently been able to find the regular stuff in the non-specialty stores here... never mind some fancy shmancy low fat stuff!)

Comments

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

yeah, I've been out to that site before... it's just that none of them had mentioned soft cheese. I'd sort of suspected it might be light cream cheese, but wanted to know for sure.

Although I've got to say that corn syrup doesn't work very well for me as a substitute for golden syrup. The consistency is the same and it does have the same chemical reaction that they're looking for in a recipe, but the flavor is completely different. Thankfully, there are a ton of places around here that carry the real thing, because I've got a few recipes that call for it.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

YES - there is no substitute for Golden Syrup. It is completely singular, both in flavor and texture, and corn syrup is icky in comparison.

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

I rarely bake, but curiouswombat has posted several recipes that look wonderful, many of which use golden syrup. I cannot imagine that it is not available somewhere in NYC.