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To Clarify Dripping

A method for clarifying dripping by dissolving it in water, separating the fat, and reusing the clarified fat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Clarify Dripping

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the dripping in a pan with an equal quantity of water.

  2. Let it dissolve.

  3. Pour the mixture into a basin.

  4. When cold, lift out the caked dripping whole and scrape the underside until clean.

  5. Melt it again and pour into jars.

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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What each ingredient does

Dripping
Provides the fat that is kept and clarified for cooking.
Water
Dissolves and separates impurities from the fat as the mixture cools.

The step that matters

Scraping the underside of the caked dripping. Water and meat residue cling to the underside of the solidified fat. Scraping it off removes these impurities, which would otherwise spoil the clarified fat and shorten its keeping time.

“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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