Lemon Sauce

Ingredients

• one pint of water
• one cupful of sugar
• three large teaspoonfuls of corn-starch
• the grated rind and juice of one lemon
• one tablespoonful of butter

Method

1. 1

   Boil water and sugar, stir in corn-starch mixed with cold water, and cook for ten minutes without boiling.

2. 2

   Add lemon juice and rind, and butter.

3. 3

   Serve warm.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 205. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one tablespoonful of butter. Add one cupful of boiling water and put into a double boiler. When it comes to a boil stir in one tablespoonful of corn-starch previously dissolved in a little cold water. Let heat thoroughly. Take from the fire and stir in a cupful of any desired fruit, crushed. Serve hot. A. T. B. STRAWBERRY SAUCE— COLD. Cream one cupful of sugar and one-third of a cupful of butter, add the beaten whites of two eggs and one cupful of ripe crushed strawber- ries; fine for cottage pudding, plain boiled tapioca pnd other simple pud- dings; gives flavor of strawberry short-cake. A. D. F. FRUIT SAUCE. Cream equal parts of butter and granulated sugar together with enough fruit jam or juice to flavor the sauce as desired. E. C. A. BUTTER SAUCE. Put one-half cupful of butter into a basin, work into it one cupful of sugar. Pour in enough raspberry juice to color and flavor it. Especially good for batter puddings. E. J. B. PUDDINGS AND PUDDING SAUCES. 287 ENGLISH SWEET SAUCE. Put into a bowl the yolks of two eggs with four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar and stir until it becomes creamy. Add one-half pint ot sweet cream, little by little, beating constantly, and grate in the rind of one orange. Place the pan on a slow fire and stir well for five minutes, being careful not to let boil. Strain and serve. A. T. O. LEMON SAUCE. Let come to a boil one pint of water and one cupful of sugar, then stir in three large teaspoonfuls of corn-starch previously mixed with a little cold water, stir over the fire for ten minutes, but do not let it boil; then add the grated rind and juice of one lemon

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