Melted Butter Sauce

Ingredients

• two ounces of butter
• the same quantity of semolina flour
• half a pint of cold water
• the juice of a lemon
• salt to taste
• six ounces of butter
• a little grated nutmeg
• the yolks of two or three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put butter in a stewpan, mix with semolina flour, cold water, lemon juice, and salt.

2. 2

   Boil while stirring until soft.

3. 3

   Strain, return to heat, add nutmeg, butter, and stir until melted.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 41. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MELTED BUTTER SAUCE. Put a stewpan on the fire with two ounces of butter, mix with it the same quantity of semolina flour, half a pint of cold water, the juice of a lemon, and salt to taste ; boil on a moderate fire and stir well with a wooden spoon the while, to make it soft and without clots; as soon as it boils rub it through a fine sieve or tammy cloth, return it to the stewpan on the fire, add a little grated nutmeg, six ounces of butter, and a few drops of lemon- juice ; stir, and serve as soon as the butter is properly melted. This sauce can be improved by adding the yolks of two or three eggs

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