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Clarified Dripping

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. 1 pint of cold water

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. which has become dark through use.
  2. Place the fat in a pan, adding i to 1 pint of cold water, according to the amount of fat, heat slowly, stir occasionally, simmer about a quarter of an hour, then turn the whole contents into a basin of cold water.
  3. Next day lift off carefully the solid cake of fat, turn over and scrape off the sediment which has clung to the bottom.
  4. Place the fat in a pan, and heat slowly till it just begins to faintly smoke, whien it is ready for use.
  5. If fat is very dirty, clarify twice.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula