Lemon Sauce

Ingredients

• a cup of granulated sugar
• a tablespoonful of flour
• a teaspoonful of lemon peel
• a cup of hot water
• half a cup of butter
• a teaspoonful of lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Make the same as orange sauce, using lemon peel and juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cookery (1899) by Emma P. Ewing, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

half a cup of butter into a pint bowl, slightly warmed, and stir with a wooden spoon until it is soft and creamy, then add, a tablespoon- 244 I'h^ ^^i of Cookery. ful at a time, one cup of pulverized sugar — stirring the mixture after adding each spoonful of sugar. Flavor with vanilla, orange, lemon, pistachio, or any flavoring liked, and add also, if desired, two or three tablespoon- fuls of sweet cream — a tablespoonful at a time, beating well before adding more. The white of an ^^^^ beaten to a stiff froth, may also be added to give the mixture lightness. By using strawberry, raspberry, or pine-apple juice, instead of cream, a fruit flavor may be given to this sauce. Foamy Sauce No. i. — To butter and sugar creamed as directed add two or three tablespoonfuls of boiling milk or water — a spoonful at a time — and beat while adding the boiling liquid. Foamy Sauce No. 2. — Mix together a tablespoonful of flour and a cup of granulated sugar, add a cup of boiling water, and simmer five minutes. Heat a pint bowl and a Dover beater. Break a fresh ^^% into the bowl, beat very light, and pour the liquid sauce over the beaten q.^% — ^beating while adding the sauce, then add half a cup of butter beaten to a cream, and flavor to taste. Transparent Liquid Sauce. — Follow the directions given for making liquid sauce, but use arrow-root or cornstarch instead of flour, and add the butter without having it beaten to a cream. If transparent sauce is to be served with a rich pudding, omit the butter, if with an apple, or an acid fruit, pudding, omit the lemon juice. Orange Sauce. — Mix together a cup of granulated sugar, a tablespoonful of flour, and a teaspoonful of Puddings. 245 grated orange peel. Add a cup of hot water, simmer five minutes, remove fi'om the fire, and add the juice of an orange and half a cup of butter, beaten to a cream. Lemon Sauce. — Make the same as orange sauce, using lemon peel in place of orange peel, and a teaspoonful of lemon juice in place of the juice of an orange. Strawberry Sauce. — Mix a tablespoonful of flour with a cup of granulated sugar, add a cup of hot water

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