drawn butter

melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.

a sauce of melted butter, flour, vegetable or fish stock, and lemon juice.

Origin of drawn butter

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Add two or three tablespoonfuls of capers to two cupfuls of Drawn-Butter Sauce.

The Myrtle Reed Cook Book |Myrtle Reed
Add one-half cupful of sliced or chopped hard-boiled eggs to two cupfuls of Drawn-Butter Sauce or sufficient melted butter.

The Myrtle Reed Cook Book |Myrtle Reed
Make a drawn-butter sauce of one tablespoonful of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour cooked till the mixture leaves the pan.

The Myrtle Reed Cook Book |Myrtle Reed
To add food material, a dressing, such as drawn-butter sauce or mayonnaise dressing, is usually served.

Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 |Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

When I brought on the asparagus, he said that in Poland they put burnt bread crumbs into drawn-butter sauce.

Paris Vistas |Helen Davenport Gibbons

drawn butter

melted butter often with seasonings