Melted Butter

Ingredients

• a tablespoonful of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• a pint of boiling water
• a saltspoonful of salt
• a quarter of a saltspoonful of white pepper
• three tablespoonfuls of butter

Method

1. 1

   In a saucepan, melt butter and flour until bubbling.

2. 2

   Gradually stir in boiling water, salt, and pepper.

3. 3

   Once boiling, remove from heat and stir in butter until melted.

4. 4

   Serve in a hot sauceboat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 125. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

melted butter made as described below, or with pork-scraps. Boiled potatoes and boiled beets are sometimes served with the salt fish, and in the season a dish of boiled parsnips. MELTED BUTTER. This old-fashioned sauce is seldom well made, but it is so excellent that it deserves attention. It should be made about fifteen minutes before dinner-time. Put in a clean saucepan over the fire a tablespoonful each of butter and 220 PRACTICAL AMERICAN COOKERY. flour, and stir them until they bubble ; then gradually stir in a pint of boiling water, a saltspoonful of salt, and a quarter of a saltspoonful of white pepper, and stir the sauce until it is at the boiling point.' When the sauce boils, draw the saucepan to the side of the fire, where its contents will keep hot without boiling, and stir into it, one at a time, three tablespoonfuls of butter

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.