Melted Butter Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 oz. of fresh butter
• 0.5 oz. of flour
• a gill (quarter of a pint) and a half of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in a stewpan.

2. 2

   Stir in flour until smooth.

3. 3

   Pour in cold water and stir until it boils and thickens.

4. 4

   Optionally, add butter before serving for smoothness.

5. 5

   For fish, add anchovy sauce or parsley; for puddings, sweeten with sugar or treacle.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The official handbook for the National Training School for Cookery (1891) by National Training School for Cookery (London), page 106. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MELTED BUTTER SAUCE. (For Fish or Pudding.) Average cost of '" Melted Butter Sauce" (about a quarter of a pint). INGREDIENTS. d. 1 oz. of fresh butter \ oz. of flour \ Time required, about 5 minutes. Now we will show you how to make Melted Butter Sauce. 1. We put one ounce of butter into a stewpan, put it over the fire ; and when it is melted, we stir in half an ounce of flour, and mix them smoothly together with a wooden spoon. 2. We now pour in a gill {quarter of a pint) and a half of cold water

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