Wiktionary
n. A cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat
WordNet
n. butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids [syn: drawn butter]
Wikipedia
Clarified butter is milk fat rendered from butter to separate the milk solids and water from the butterfat. Typically, it is produced by melting butter and allowing the components to separate by density. The water evaporates, some solids float to the surface and are skimmed off, and the remainder of the milk solids sink to the bottom and are left behind when the butter fat (which would then be on top) is poured off.
Commercial methods of production also include direct evaporation, but may also be accomplished by decantation and centrifugation followed by vacuum drying; or direct from cream by breaking the emulsion followed by centrifugation.
Usage examples of "clarified butter".
His skin became smooth and as pellucid as clarified butter, until it appeared as though the white of bone shone through.
Most fish in P-town was slapped boneless and skinless onto sizzle-platters, drizzled with clarified butter and paprika and then broiled to death.
She put her hand into a goatskin bag of clarified butter and began to oil the taut skin of her enormous belly, wondering how she could possibly have been so foolish as to get pregnant in Afghanistan.
The meal, however, was anything but ordinary: buckwheat blini filled with Beluga caviar, drizzled with clarified butter.
There is one of milk and one of clarified butter and one of sugar cane.
Since his parents are incapable of providing for him, he devours them as soon as he is born, and then feeds on the oblations of clarified butter poured into his mouths of devouring flame.
On the range, the clarified butter was just beginning to deepen in color.
The town smelled of wood smoke and raw sewage, of rice cooked with saffron and of ghee, clarified butter.
Daemon asked as he dipped a piece of lobster into the bowl of clarified butter.
She popped a pair of boned chicken breasts into some hot, clarified butter.
He spent ten years in Thibet organising the clarified butter industry on modern European lines, and was able to retire at thirty-six with a handsome fortune.
The kunafeh was one of his favorite dishes, wheat-flour vermicelli fried in clarified butter and sweetened with honey.
But she filled it, none the less, with good, steaming vegetable curry, clapped a fried cake atop, and a morsel of clarified butter on the cake, dabbed a lump of sour tamarind conserve at the side.