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Butter Sauce

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 4

Time: about 3-4 minutes.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 278. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Butter Sauce (another way). — Put a quarter of a pint of melted butter into an enamelled saucepan over a slow fire — see that it does not brown — and two well-whisked eggs, carefully stirring all the time till it thickens. Remove before it boils, and pour in a little lemon-juice

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