Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

• 1/2 pint fresh button mushrooms
• 4 ounces butter
• 1 even tablespoonf ul salt
• 1 even teaspoonf ul white pepper
• the juice of 1 lemon
• 1 tablespoonf ul flour
• a little nutmeg
• sufficient cream or milk

Method

1. 1

   Cut off the stalks from the mushrooms and place them in a saucepan with butter, salt, white pepper, and lemon juice.

2. 2

   Cover and stew slowly for 20 minutes.

3. 3

   Add flour, nutmeg, and enough cream or milk to make a proper sauce consistency, then serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 341. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Va pint fresh button mushrooms, put them into a dish of water with a little lemon juice. Then take them out of the water, and place with 4 ounces butter in a saucepan over the fire ; add 1 even tablespoonf ul salt, 1 even teaspoonf ul white pepper, and the juice of 1 lemon ; cover, and stew slowly 20 minutes; add 1 tablespoonf ul flour, a little nutmeg, and gradually sufficient cream or milk

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