Blanche

Ingredients

• a dessertspoonful of good flour
• four ounces of butter
• a pint of hot or cold water
• the juice of one lemon
• a little fresh butter

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour and butter without heating.

2. 2

   Season with salt and pepper, add water, and stir while heating.

3. 3

   Boil for two minutes, then remove.

4. 4

   Mix in lemon juice and fresh butter until melted.

5. 5

   Adjust thickness with water if necessary.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 179. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Blanche. Put into a saucepan a dessertspoonful of good flour and four ounces of butter. Mix those two ingredients carefully without heating them. Season with pepper and salt, and add a pint of hot or cold water. Put the sauce- pan on the fire, taking care to stir all the time. Let it boil for two minutes, then remove it. Mix with it the juice of one lemon and a little fresh butter

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