butterfat
Dairy's lipid content
Butterfat is the fatty component of milk and cream, the substance that solidifies into butter when cream is churned.
Milk is graded by butterfat content—whole milk contains about 3.5%, while heavy cream exceeds 36%.
The recipe calls for cream with high butterfat content.
ghee
Butter with milk removed
lard · blubber · schmaltz · dripping · shortening · whale oil
- dairymilk, cream, cheese, yogurt, sour cream
- cooking fatslard, shortening, tallow, vegetable oil, bacon grease
- fats and greasesgrease, lard, tallow, suet, drippings
- animal fatslard, tallow, suet, schmaltz, ghee
- buttermakingchurn, churning, dasher, plunger, kneading
- Dairy Cattlemilk production, dairy farm, udder, cow, milking
milk component composition
butterfatwhey
Liquid from curdled dairy
skim milk · milk protein · whey protein · casein · lactose
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