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Bechamel Sauce
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 6
Excellent with roast veal, meats, and fish.
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 100. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
BECHAMEL SAUCE. Put three tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan; add three table- spoonfuls of sifted flour, quarter of a teaspoonful of nutmeg, ten pepper- corns, a teaspoonful of salt; beat all well together; then add to this three slices of onion, two slices of carrot, two sprigs of parsley, two of thyme, a bay leaf and half a dozen mushrooms cut up. Moisten the whole with a pint of stock or water and a cup of sweet cream
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