What exactly is clotted cream?

Clotted cream has the texture of sour cream, but without the "sour" taste. It is difficult and time consuming to make - a recipe I recall started with...8 quarts of cream in a stock pot, simmer and stir constantly for six hours...or something like that.

Sometimes called Devon Cream, Devonshire Cream or (my favorite) Double Devon cream. It can be ordered at a nicer supermarket, or at a British foodstore. It's expensive: be happy if 8oz costs under $10-15. But there is nothing like it. Yummmm!

a thick cream made chiefly in England by slowly heating whole milk on which the cream has been allowed to rise and then skimming the cooled cream from the top -- called also Devonshire cream

It's the same thing as sour cream.

It is actually very good with strawberries.

clotted cream is nothing like "sour cream", it's a very heavy cream made from unpasteurizer cow's milk, also called "devon cream" (I have some in the pantry)