Egg Sauce

Ingredients

• half a cupful of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• half a pint of boiling water
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• half a salt-spoonful of white pepper
• two hard-boiled eggs

Method

1. 1

   Beat together butter and flour; add boiling water and stir until the sauce begins to boil.

2. 2

   Draw back from heat, add salt, white pepper, and chopped hard-boiled eggs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 297. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Egg Sauce. Egg sauce is made by beating together half a cupful of butter and a table- spoonful of flour ; adding half a pint of boiling water ; setting the saucepan on the fire, and stirring until the sauce begins to boil ; immediately drawing the saucepan back, and adding half a teaspoonful of salt and half a salt-spoonful of white pepper ; chopping two hard-boiled eggs

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