Clarified Butter (how To Clarify Butter)

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• unsalted butter
• cheesecloth

Recipe

• 1 cut the butter into 1-inch pieces.
• 2 heat the butter over low heat in a copper bottomed saucepan.
• 3 when butter has melted, remove it from the heat and let stand for 4 minutes.
• 4 careful not to disturb the layers of melted butter, pour all of it through two layers of cheesecloth; discard the solids and froth that are left on the cloth.
• 5 the remaining butter is clarified!
• 6 keep chilled until use; clarified butter can be stored in the refrigerator, staying chilled in an airtight container, for up to a month.