Definition of Drawn butter

1. Noun. Butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids.

Exact synonyms: Clarified Butter
Generic synonyms: Butter
Specialized synonyms: Ghee

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawn Butter

drawliest
drawling
drawlingly
drawlings
drawlink
drawlinks
drawloom
drawlooms
drawls
drawly
drawmaster
drawmasters
drawn
drawn-out
drawn and quartered
drawn out
drawne
drawnet
drawnets
drawnness
drawnwork
drawnworks
drawplate
drawplates
drawrod
drawrods
draws
draws out
drawshave

Literary usage of Drawn butter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"drawn butter, Curry Sauce, and Egg Sauce. Always use sweet butter; if at all hurt, the butter is more than lost: it spoils the gravy, and every thing it is ..."

2. The Home Cook Book: A Collection of Practical Receipts by Expert Cooks (1905)
"... MEAT Apple Sauce—Asparagus Sauce—Beefsteak Sauce—Bread Sauce—Brown Sauce—Drawn Butter—drawn butter for Fish—Caper Sauce—Cauliflower Sauce—Celery Sauce— ..."

3. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1911)
"drawn butter Sauce J3' cup butter 1J£ cups hot water 3 tablespoons flour .i£ ... Shrimp Sauce To drawn butter Sauce add one egg yolk and one-half can ..."

4. Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book: And Young Housekeeper's Assistant by Elizabeth H. Putnam (1869)
"To half a pint of drawn butter add two table- spoonfuls of nice green parsley ... To three gills of good drawn butter add about half a cup of capers; ..."

5. Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book: And Young Housekeeper's Assistant by Elizabeth H. Putnam (1869)
"To half a pint of drawn butter add two table- spoonfuls of nice green parsley ... To three gills of good drawn butter add about half a cup of capers; ..."

6. First Principles of Household Management and Cookery: A Text-book for by Maria Parloa (1879)
"drawn butter. BEAT one cup of butter and two table-spoonfuls of flour to a cream, ... Chop up two hard-boiled eggs, and stir into drawn butter. ..."

7. Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery by Marion Harland (1874)
"A teacupful drawn butter. A wine-glass pale sherry. ... Strain the liquor into the drawn butter (No. 3), boil a minute, add the wine; heat gradually to a ..."

8. Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical by Mary Foote Henderson (1889)
"Some persons like drawn-butter sauce slightly acid, in which case add a few drops of ... Make a drawn-butter sauce; just before serving add two or three ..."

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