Sweet-Bread (White Sauce)

Ingredients

• One sweet-bread
• one teaspoonful arrowroot
• one gill and a half milk
• one pinch pepper
• one pinch salt

Method

1. 1

   Soak the sweet-bread for an hour in a basin of cold water.

2. 2

   Take it from the water, place it in a sauce-pan, cover it with cold water, place the pan over the fire, and allow the water to boil slowly for half an hour.

3. 3

   Take the sweet-bread from the water and plunge it into a basin of cold water, wash it well, trim all the fat from it, and cut it in small pieces.

4. 4

   Moisten now in a basin the arrowroot with a little of the milk; when smooth add all the milk, and pour this into a fresh sauce-pan; stir over the fire till boiling.

5. 5

   Add the sweet-breads, pepper, and salt, and simmer all very slowly for ten minutes.

6. 6

   Serve at once on a hot dish.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 187. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

weet -Bread (White Sauce). — One sweet-bread, one tea-spoonful arrowroot, one gill and a half milk, one pinch pepper, one pinch salt

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