Lemon Sauce

Ingredients

• 2 cups hot water
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 heaping teaspoonfuls corn starch
• grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
• 1 tablespoonful butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil the water and sugar for five minutes, add the corn starch wet in a little cold water.

2. 2

   Cook for ten minutes, add the lemon rind and juice, and butter.

3. 3

   Stir till the butter is melted and serve at once.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon Sauce. Supper.— Cold Corned Beef. Hot Biscuit. Stewed Prunes. Cake. Tea. • Cottage Pudding.— 2 heaping cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls bak- ing powder, U teaspoonful salt, 1 egg, ^ cup sugar, t tablespoon- fuls melted butter, 1 cup milk. Mix the salt and baking powder with the flour. Beat the cgQ, add the sugar, melted butter, milk and stir into the flour. Lemon Sauce.— 2 cups hot water, i cup sugar, 3 heaping tea- spoonfuls corn starch, grated rind and juice of 1 lemon, 1 tablespoon- ful butter. Boil the water and sugar five minutes, add the corn starch wet in a little cold water. Cook ten minutes, add the lemon rind and juice, and butter. Stir till the butter is melted and serve at once. FRIDAY, FEB. 17 Breakfast. — Oatmeal and Cream. Beet Hash. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner.— Hamand Eggs. Parsnips. White Potatoes. Breadand Butter. Cup Custard. Supper.— Macaroni with Cheese. Fresh Graham Bread and But- ter. Canned Cherries. Cake. Tea. Beet Hash. — Chop the meat and beets together, add the pota- toes and chop very fine. Put the fat which was left from the meat in a frying pan and when liquid pick out the bits of brown fat, add the hash and just enough boiling water to moisten well, cover and cook until brown, then fold as you would an omelet, and serve at once. SATURDAY, FEB. Omelet. 18 Breakfast. — Indian Mush with Cream. Hot Buttered Toast. Coffee. Dinner.— Fried Hahbut. Boiled White Potatoes. Stewed Toma- toes. Bread and Butter. Hot Apple Pie. Cheese. Supper. — Baked Beans. Boston Brown Bread. Apple Sauce. Cake. Indian Mush. — Put one quart of water on to boil. Mix one pint of corn meal one teaspoonful of salt, and one tablespoonful of flour with one pint of cold milk. Stir this gradually into the boil- ing water and boil half an hour, stirring often. Cook an extra supply and pour in a tin to fry the next morning. SUNDAY, FEB. 19 Breakfast.— Fried Indian Mush with Maple Svrup. Warmed Beans. Toasted Boston Brown Bread and Butter. CttfTee. Dinner.— Roast Beef. Gravy. Browned Baked Potatoes (Rule Jan. 15th.) Turnips. Boiled Onions. Celery. Bread and But- ter. Mince l*ie and Cheese. Supper.— Oyster Stew witli Crackers. Canned Pears. Feather Cake. Feather Cakf.— 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, i tablespoonful butter

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