Hot Sauce, No. 4

Ingredients

• A little less than a quart of boiling water
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 tablespoonful sifted flour or cornstarch
• butter the size of a walnut
• flavor with grated rind of lemon, cinnamon, nutmeg, or extract of lemon or vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Stir into the boiling water the mixed flour or cornstarch and sugar.

2. 2

   If grated lemon rind or ground cinnamon is used, add it now.

3. 3

   Boil for two or three minutes.

4. 4

   Remove from the fire, then stir in butter.

5. 5

   If grated nutmeg or flavoring extracts are to be used add them after the butter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Manual for army cooks (1896) by United States. War Dept. Subsistence Dept., page 84. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 tablespoonful sifted flour or cornstarch, mixed in enough cold water to make a smooth paste. 1 pint sweet milk. Plavor with lemon or vanilla extract. Mix ingredients well together ; put in saucepan, boil, stir constantly until it begins to thicken, when it is cooked. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Hot Sauce, No. 4. A little less than a quart of boiling water ; 1 cup of sugar ; butter the size of a walnut ; 1 tablespoon- ful sifted flour or cornstarch, mixed in enough cold water to make a smooth paste; flavor with grated rind of lemon, cinnamon, nutmeg, or extract of lemon or vanilla

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