Fish in White Sauce

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoonfuls of flour
• Rub an ounce or two of butter
• half a cup of milk
• Flavour with lemon, cayenne
• pepper and salt
• pepper and salt
• Cut up the fish, which must be raw

Method

1. 1

   Make a white sauce by rubbing butter into flour, adding stock from boiled fish bones and milk.

2. 2

   Flavour with lemon, cayenne, parsley, pepper, and salt.

3. 3

   Cut fish into pieces and simmer in the sauce for a few minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

fish in white sauce. Make a nice white sauce as follows ; — Rub an ounce or two of butter in 2 tablespoonfuls of flour, add to it a few spoonfuls of stock made of the fish-bones boiled with an onion till the latter is nice and tender ; and then take half a cup of milk and pour it over. Flavour with lemon, cayenne, chopped par,sley, pepper and salt. Cut up the fish, which must be raw

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