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Cream Sauce

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 2

Serve with boiled fish, poultry, eggs, and various vegetables.

Presented as published in 1909. 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 A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CREAM SAUCE Boil one pint of Béchamel Sauce, and add one-quarter pint of cream to it. Reduce on an open fire until the sauce has become very thick; then pass through tammy. Bring to its normal degree of consistency by gradually adding, away from the fire, one-quarter pint of very fresh cream and a few drops of lemon- juice

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