How to Make Clarified Butter

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Method for making clarified butter, useful in making many recipes.

Prep Time5

Cook Time1

Total Time1

Course: condiment

Cuisine: European

Keyword: clarified butter

Servings:

Put butter in a cast iron pot or any thick-walled pot and melt over the lowest heat possible. Once milk solid begin to float to the top skim them off. Continue the process until the butter is amber in colour and transparent, take off the heat. It takes about 45-50 minutes to clarify 2 lbs of butter. (Roughly 25 minutes per pound of butter.) You should be able to see the bottom of the pot.
Ladle the clarified butter into clean jars. Pour the butter through a cheesecloth for the last jar to filter out the sediment.

This recipe makes 750 ml/3 cups.
The butter needs to have at least 80% fat content. Low-fat or reduced-fat butter won't work.
Hold onto the milk solids you skim off. They can be added to soups, broths or scrambled eggs. and will carry that delicious butter flavour!