Plain Melted Butter
Ingredients
Directions
Place the butter in a bowl.
Place the bowl in boiling water until the butter melts.
Pour the melted butter through a fine sieve to remove any sediment.
Beat in a pinch of salt.
Serve in a hot sauceboat.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Butter
- Provides fat and rich flavour, and sets the texture of the finished sauce.
The step that matters
Melting the butter gently in boiling water. Butter is an emulsion of fat, water and milk solids. Melting it slowly in the water bath keeps the emulsion from separating and the fat from scorching, so the butter stays smooth and clear.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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