To Clarify Butter for Potting
Ingredients
Directions
Make the clarified butter
Place fresh butter and cold water in a saucepan over low heat.
Allow the butter to melt and skim off the foam.
Let it sit until the sediment settles at the bottom.
Carefully pour off the clear butter oil.
Use
When the oil starts to congeal, use it with your other ingredients.
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
- Fresh butter
- Provides the fat that is clarified, leaving behind milk solids and water.
The step that matters
Pour off the clear butter oil carefully. Milk solids and sediment sit at the bottom of the pan. Pouring slowly and stopping before the bottom layer reaches the spout keeps the clear fat free of those solids, which would otherwise brown and cloud it.
“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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