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To Clarify Fat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Clarify Fat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the fat in a pan.

  2. Add several slices of raw potato.

  3. Cook until the potato is browned and crispy.

  4. Remove the potato and cool the fat.

  5. Strain the fat through cheesecloth.

  6. Once cooled, cover the fat.

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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