Drawn Butter Sauce

Ingredients

• two generous tablespoonfuls of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• a pint of boiling water
• one-half tablespoonful of butter
• a little salt and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Put butter in a saucepan, add flour and stir; pour in boiling water, add salt and pepper.

2. 2

   Simmer for twenty minutes until it thickens, then add gradually the remaining butter, beating until it becomes white.

3. 3

   Stir well, strain and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 274. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRAWN BUTTER SAUCE. Put in a saucepan two generous tablespoonfuls of butter, add two tablespoonfuls of flour and stir; pour in a pint of boiling water, add a little salt and pepper. Simmer for twenty minutes until it thickens, then add gradually one-half tablespoonful of butter

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