Fair Maid's Sauce

Ingredients

• a teacupful of breadcrumbs
• an onion
• the white meat of a chicken or rabbit
• the yolks of two eggs boiled hard
• salt
• white pepper
• cream or new milk

Method

1. 1

   Simmer breadcrumbs and sliced onion in broth.

2. 2

   Pound white meat, egg yolks, salt, and pepper in a mortar.

3. 3

   Mix with bread broth and pass through a tamis.

4. 4

   If too thick, dilute with cream or milk.

5. 5

   Warm but do not boil.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery and housekeeping (1882) by Reeve, Henry Mrs., page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fair Maid's Sauce. Simmer in pale broth 'a teacupful of breadcrumbs and an onion cut in slices. Take the white meat of a chicken or rabbit, the yolks of two eggs boiled hard, salt, and white pepper, and pound in a mortar ; mix with the bread broth and pass through a tamis. If too thick, dilute with cream or new milk

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