[Sca-cooks] Ghee for SCA cooking

[Adele de Maisieres]

Tom Vincent wrote:

>I don't know if this has been brought up before, but I thought I'd suggest that if folks want to use clarified butter to get a higher heat level without the smoke of melted butter, your local South Asian (aka Indian) grocer has ghee for about $10 a quart, which is a great price.
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>  They also have a vegetarian ghee, but I haven't had any experience with it.
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>Clarified butter (ghee) is butter without the solids, so you get the rich butter flavor.  
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>  More authentic period-wise for Northern European cooking than olive oil.
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I like clarified butter and use it for quite a few things, but I don't 
know if I've seen specific reference to it in period books.  I think 
lard may have been a more common frying medium.

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Adele de Maisieres

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