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Butter Sauce

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 1

Used with fish and boiled vegetables.

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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Ingredients

Method

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. — Season a cupful of flour with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and cloves. Mix it with some water into a paste, and work in a piece of butter about the size of an egg. Put the thin paste into a pan over the fire, and boil it for a quarter of an hour, then take it ofl:', and add some fresh butter in small poiiions at a time, continually stirring the contents to pre- vent the butter from I'ising to the surface. After- wards add some vinegar

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