clariefied butter/ghee

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In a message dated 1/5/02 5:57:20 AM, writes:

 

<< Actually, too, clarifying your butter, or making ghee, does not in fact

remove the cholesterol(which has a bad name, but is necessary for many

bodily functions)

but removes the milk proteins, or casein, and makes it tolerable for those

with dairy allergies...it still has cholesterol and saturated fat...which

arent nescessarily bad for you!!! >>

 

Once again I apologize for long delay in responding. In process of

switching offices and setting up new computer in addition to all the other

things we dol

By now probably someone has explained how to make ghee, for the folks who

asked. But I do it differently, so will share anyhow.

Simmer unsalted butter. Not boil, but a strong simmer. A white froth

of milk solids will form on the top, and after a while will sink to the

bottom of the pan, where after a few minutes it will start to brown. If you

turn off the heat before this happens, it is difficult to pour off the

clarified portion without getting bits of this white goo along with it. But

if you wait till the solids just begin to brown, they are a lot denser and

will sink to the bottom better.

I pour off the clarified portion till I get down to the bottom and staart

getting some of the gunk with it. Then I set the pan tipped toward one side

and let it cool down some. This makes he goo part even denser, so after a

few minuttes the rest of the liquid can be poured off cleanly. If I forget

and the pan cools down too much before I get back to it, and the ghee

solidifies, I gently heat the pan a bit and then pour.

Or yu can pour through a fine mesh metal sieve, but then you have that to

clean.

Anyway, it is my understanding that the cholesterol goes into the garbage

with the milk solids. I was also told this by he head of a company that

makes ghee. And some facts someone else here posted about the % of

cholesterol in butter vs. ghee certainly supports this. There was hardly any

chol. in ghee, though quite a bit in butter.

My DH and I eat at least 2 lbs. of ghee a week. His cholesterol is about

128, and mine is 145. We are 57.

Shivani