Lemon or Orange Sauce

Ingredients

• a cup of sugar
• half a cup of butter
• one beaten egg
• the grated rind of one lemon or orange

Method

1. 1

   Cream a cup of sugar and half a cup of butter, or that proportion, add the grated rind of one lemon or orange, one beaten egg; beat it well; set the bowl over hot tea kettle, where it will become hot, but not boil, beating constantly.

2. 2

   Before serving add the juice that came from the oranges, or the juice of a lemon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon or Orange Sauce. If one wishes a sauce for it (I do not), cream a cup of sugar and half a cup of butter, or that proportion, add the grated rind of one lemon or orange, one beaten' egg

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