Ghee - Event Date: August 02 2006

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.

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.

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

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. 

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

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!!