Sauce for Boiled Cod

Ingredients

• To ONE gill of boiling water
• add as much milk
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• one tablespoonful of flour
• the chopped yolk of one boiled egg
• one raw egg beaten light
• pepper, salt
• a little chopped parsley
• the juice of one lemon

Method

1. 1

   Stir into boiling water and milk the butter gradually, then add flour.

2. 2

   As it thickens, add the chopped yolk and beaten egg.

3. 3

   Season with pepper, salt, parsley, and lemon juice, and set covered in boiling water for five minutes.

4. 4

   Pour part of the sauce over fish when dished; the rest in a boat.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SAUCE FOR BOILED COD. To ONE gill of boiling water add as much milk; stir into this while boil- ing two tablespoonfuls of butter gradually, one tablespoonful of flour wet up with cold water; as it thickens, the chopped yolk of one boiled egg, and one raw egg beaten light. Take directly from the fire, season with pepper, salt, a little chopped parsley and the juice of one lemon

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