well, there *is* water in all butter - clafified butter (ghee they call it in india) is butter after the water is boiled out. so you're just adding a tiny bit MORE watter, which will then boil off very quickly and leave you with flavored butter. when I say a tiny bit of water, I mean a TINY TINY BIT - a few drops of water to make a very thick bullion paste, which will then mix very well with the butter. Lemme do some thinking on this - I might have a few hints - i love a mental challenge. "