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Clarified butter

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat. uncountable, usually

    "The means whereby the sailors do this, is, first to dress the meat, then cut it into slices; and laying them regularly one upon another in a close cask, they pour clarified butter thereon to fill up all the interstices"

  2. 2
    butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids wordnet

Etymology

From clarified + butter, from Middle English clarifien and buter. Earliest attestation of clarified in this sense from the 14th century.

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