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Ghee - Event Date: August 02 2006 |
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BobFMB
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Posted: August 02 2006 at 1:46pm |
Has anyone tried Ghee? It's a form of shelf stable clarified butter. It's common to India. The butter is heated and the clarified portion is skimmed off with a spoon and left to cool. There are no solids in the ghee, just the fatty part of the butter. It's semisolid at room temp, and a hard solid in the frig. Supposedly you can leave it at room temp after opening so long as you use a clean utensil everytime you enter the jar. If you contaminate it with toast crumbs or whatnot, you should refrigerate it. I guess if you're creative you could try to reconstitute the butter by adding butter solids such as Molly McButter, or dehydrated butter. I found this in a King Arthur Flour catalog. You can also find it by searching the net under Ghee. Tastes like butter to me. I'm too chicken to try to can butter myself.
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Safety Lady
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Tried it, made it, buy it, It is great.
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Hi, I have several recipes in some of my cookbooks (health and more exotic ones), in which ghee is used, but have never tried it.
Are you making this and storing this for butter in a pandemic/crisis, BobFMB? I haven't canned butter either, but I ordered some canned butter from the internet grocer. There has been a thread here before about ghee, called Ghee?? at http://avianflutalk.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=3368 in case you want to read that too. |
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BobFMB
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I'm storing for butter in pandemic/crisis. I ordered six 16oz jars, and have put them away with the rest of my bird flu supplies. I tried to order butter from internet-grocer but they have been out of stock since April of 2006, and dont expect new shipments due to a problem w import regulations. Glad you were able to get the canned butter in time. I'll get some too if it comes back on market.
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roxy
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BOBFMB, I have looked for Ghee in the international food section, can"t find it , do you have the name of the brand???? I am freezing butter, we have'nt gotten to canning it. I would like to have Ghee on the self/preps. thanks roxy
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BobFMB
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Hi Roxy, I found a lot by searching under ghee. I ordered mine through,
www.ishopindian.com Hope this helps. BobFMB
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parkingm
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I was browsing thru a large Asian market in my area today and came across some canned butter. It was $2.49 for 7.05 oz. It is imported for Brazil. The company on the can is brexamerica.com. I looked at their site and they do have the butter there, but I have no idea the cost or anything. Just thought maybe others could use this info if they don't have access to purchasing canned butter locally. WOO HOO I found the butter and the canned cheese today.
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Never2late
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I get mine at the local Indian food store...lots of choices and sizes. I have also "canned" butter and it was easy and much less expensive than buying ghee. t
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roxy
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thankyou BOBFMB, sorry for the long time no post back, I copied the pages I need for the ghee, and will take them to the stores. there must be ghee around here I'm on the East Coast, thanks again for taking the time to post the site,If I find it around here, will post back. If all else fails ,I'll order it from the web site, roxy
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I just happened to come across a jar of ghee today at the health food store. It was near the whole wheat flour. idn't buy it ass I thought I would lookaround at prices first. I think it was about 7oz for $5 andabout 14oz for $8. Want to look at an Indian grocery store too...
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Lasiker
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I just got a case of canned butter from New Zealand at www.mredpot.com - great price and it showed up 2 days later. They also have canned cheese, but I haven't tried that yet. Much better than trying to cann butter yourself!!
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Linda-ann
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I just go to my local health food store. a great but expensive place to prep in.
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