clarified butter

English

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)

1. 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

   • 1795, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced Housekeeper‎^[1], page 146:

     […] when they are cold, put them into potting-pots and pour over them clarified butter, and keep them in a dry place.

   • 1992, Grace Howaniec, Encore Wisconsin: Chef's Recipes Designed to Bring You Ovations‎^[2], page 112:

     This recipe calls for clarified butter which is easily made and reduces the chances of burning the butter during the sautéing process.

Hyponyms

• ghee

Translations

cooking fat made from butter

• Arabic: سمن m (samn)
• Armenian: հալած յուղ (hy) (halac yuġ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 液體黃油／液体黄油 (yètǐ huángyóu)

• Esperanto: buterograso
• Finnish: kirkastettu voi (fi)
• French: beurre clarifié (fr) m
• Galician: manteiga (gl) f
• Georgian: ერბო (ka) (erbo)
• German: Butterschmalz (de) m
• Gujarati: ઘી (gu) n (ghī)
• Hindi: घी (hi) m (ghī)
• Icelandic: skírt smjör n
• Italian: burro chiarificato m
• Japanese: 澄ましバター (sumashi-batā)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕۆن (ron)

  Northern Kurdish: rûn (ku) m

  Southern Kurdish: ڕۊن (rün)

• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: царв (carv)
• Persian: روغن گاو (roğan-e gâv), گاوروغن (gâvroğan), روغن حیوانی (fa) (roğan-e heyvâni)
• Polish: masło klarowane n
• Portuguese: manteiga clarificada f
• Romanian: unt clarificat n
• Russian: топлёное ма́сло n (topljónoje máslo)
• Sanskrit: घृत (sa) m (ghṛta)
• Thai: เนยใส (th) (nəəi-sǎi)
• Tocharian B: peṣke
• Urdu: گھی m (ghī)
• Welsh: menyn gloyw m, menyn clir m
• Zazaki: ron (diq)

See also

• butter oil

References

• “clarify”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.