Drawn Butter

Ingredients

• two large tablespoons of butter
• one tablespoon of flour
• nearly one cup of milk
• a teaspoon of salt
• a little white pepper

Method

1. 1

   Mix butter and flour, then add milk, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Stir over heat until nearly boiling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home dissertations (1891) by Tilton, E. Stevens Mrs., page 110. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

drawn butter, made with a decoction of celery seeds, and seasoned as above. CAPER SAUCE. Caper sauce is made by mixing a gill of capers, with some of their pickle-vinegar, into the drawn butter prepared as follows : DRAWN BUTTER. ' ' When I made my first attempts at becoming a cook it seemed as if every recipe for certain dishes ended with these words, ' Serve with drawn-butter sauce. ' How to make it I did not know, and I dared not ask. I felt that if I did, every older housewife would regard me as we used to the dull boy in school who begged us to tell him how many eighths there were in a whole, and how we knew. ' Intuitive knowledge ' of anything pertaining to keeping house was denied me, but after many experiments rules were evolved, and have never failed to give satisfaction." Take two large tablespoons of butter and one tablespoon of flour, and nearly one cup of milk ; before putting in the milk, mix the butter and flour thoroughly with a wooden spoon ; then add the milk or the same quantity of water, a teaspoon of salt and a little white pepper

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