clarified butter
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Etymology
From clarified + butter, from Middle English clarifien and buter. Earliest attestation of clarified in this sense from the 14th century.
Noun
clarified butter (usually uncountable, plural clarified butters)
- A cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat.
- 1725, Robert Boyle, The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq, page 52:
- 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
Hyponyms
Translations
cooking fat made from butter
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See also
References
- “clarify”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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