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clarified butters

clarified butters is the plural of clarified butter.

Meaning of clarified butter

Noun

clarified butter (usually uncountable, plural clarified butters)

  1. (usually) A cooking fat made by gently heating butter and separating the solids from the butterfat.
    • 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 interstices1725, Robert Boyle, The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq, page 52

Questions about clarified butters

What is clarified butters the plural of?
Clarified butters is the plural of clarified butter.

Words near clarified butters in the dictionary

  1. clarification
  2. clarifications
  3. clarificatory
  4. clarified
  5. clarified butter
  6. clarified butters
  7. clarifier
  8. clarifiers
  9. clarifies
  10. clarifieth
  11. clarify

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