Clarified butter

Clarified butter was once a popular delicacy, though it is no longer in vogue to the same extent. It is ideal for making dishes that benefit from a buttery flavour but need... 

Many Websites willingly divulge the secrets of butter making, such as http //www. foodfunandfacts.com/milk.htm. The site http //www.culinarycafe.com/Eggs-Dairy/ Clarified Butter.html describes how (and why) to make clarified butter. 

Ghee is clarified butter from the milk of water buffaloes or cows. Although the butter is heated enough to ehm-inate non-sporulating organisms, the process is unlikely to kill the spores of Clostridium tetani. This may explain why a case-control study in rural areas of Pakistan identified its traditional use as an umbilical cord dressing as a risk factor for the development of neonatal tetanus (24). 

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Ghi. Ghee samli clarified butter. Prepd from cream or butter by melting and heating to 122 for about 25 mins. The water evaporates, and lactose, salt, and albumin -... 

Properly clarified butter is of finely grained consistency, yellow color) mp 30 and retains most of the vitamin A content of the original butter. Keeps much longer than ordinary butter and contains less than 0.7% water. Used in India instead of butter. 

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What is removed from butter to make clarified butter ... 

Proteins and water. Clarified butter is made by melting regular butter at a low temperature. Three layers will form the top frothy layer contains the proteins from milk (casein, used to make cheese) the middle layer is water with dissolved milk sugars, like lactose the bottom layer is pure butterfat or milkfat, which is also known as clarified butter. You can instead heat butter at a low temperature for a long time to remove the water by evaporation, and then decant or filter the butterfat. Clarified butter contains almost no proteins, so it has a very long shelf life, and no lactose, so people who are lactose-intolerant can eat it. 

Khosthi" stands for bellows and the unit is used for zinc extraction from calamine, which after pulverization and mixing with additives (lac, treacle, white mustard, myrobalan and borax), is boiled in milk and clarified butter, made into balls, placed in a crucible and strongly heated, the crucible resting inverted on a pot with a perforated top and containing water where the zinc vapours get condensed. 

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