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A method for melting butter using a crock and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Without Ice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Invert a large unglazed earthenware crock over the dish containing the butter.

  2. Wrap the crock in a wet cloth.

  3. Add a little water to the dish with the butter.

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

Butter
Is the fat being melted; it is the only food in the dish and its melting is the goal of the method.

“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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