Name: Melted Butter
Ingredients: ½ cup butter; ¼ cup water; salt to taste

Melted Butter

Ingredients

½ cup butter
¼ cup water
salt to taste

Directions

Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat.
Add water and stir until combined.
Season with salt to taste.
Serve separately in a small dish.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Butter: Provides fat and richness, giving the sauce its smooth, pourable body.
Water: Adds moisture that thins the melted butter so it stays pourable.

“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.