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Burnt Butter

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. a pound of butter
  2. Water
  3. Anchovies
  4. Mace
  5. Brown sauces
  6. White pepper
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. PUT half a pound of butter into a stew-pan, with six anchovies, four shalots, two blades of mace, and four tea-spoonfuls of white pepper.
  2. Add Hour, and keep stirring till the mixture becomes as thick as paste.
  3. When cold, put the mixture into a pot, for the purpose of thickening all brown sauces.
  4. When used, difsolve as much as may be wanted in boiling water, and strain.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve