Pork Scraps with Egg Sauce

Ingredients

• one pint boiling wat
• one half cup melted butter
• one tablespoon flour
• two tablespoons cold water
• an egg very light

Method

1. 1

   Cut fat salt pork into half inch squares and fry a crisp brown.

2. 2

   For the sauce, beat an egg very light with one tablespoon flour.

3. 3

   Add two tablespoons cold water, then pour on one pint boiling water.

4. 4

   Let it boil three minutes, then take from the fire, add one half cup melted butter, and serve poured round the pork slices neatly placed in the center of the platter.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 368. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pork Scraps with Egg Sauce are nice served with boiled codfish and mashed potatoes. Cut fat salt pork into half inch squares and fry a crisp brown ; for the sauce beat an egg very light, with one table- spoon flour. Add two tablespoons cold water, then pour on one pint boiling wat^. Let it boil three minutes, then take from the fire, add one half cup melted butter

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