Aurora Sauce

Ingredients

• a piece of butter the size of an egg
• a breakfast-cupful of good white sauce
• a table-spoonful of lemon- j idee
• season liberally with cayenne and salt
• the yolks of three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Pound lobster spawn with butter until smooth.

2. 2

   Add white sauce and lemon juice.

3. 3

   Press through a sieve into the sauce, simmer gently without boiling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 184. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Aurora Sauce.— Pound the spawn of a freshly-boiled lobster in a mortar, -vrith a piece of butter the size of an egg, until it is quite smooth, and season liberally with cayenne and salt. Put into a saucepan a breakfast-cu^jf ul of good white sauce, and add a table-spoonful of lemon- j idee. Press the spawn through a fine sieve into the sauce; place it on the fire, and let it sinuner gently, taking care to lift it off tlie fire before it boils. Sufficient for a pair of soles. Probable cost, lOd. Time to simmer, two minutes. If the spawn is not at hand, the yolks of tliree egg

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