White Mushroom Sauce

Ingredients

• a tin of mushrooms
• a small quantity of lemon juice
• a small quantity of good white sauce
• about an equal quantity of boiling cream
• A little pepper and salt should be added according to taste.

Method

1. 1

   Chop the mushrooms and add lemon juice.

2. 2

   Stew them in white sauce, then rub through a sieve.

3. 3

   Add boiling cream and season with pepper and salt.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c (1880), page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

white mushroom sauce very good: — Take a tin of mushrooms, chop them up, and add a small quantity of lemon juice. (This assists the sauce to keep its colour, though very little lemon juice need be used in the case of tinned mushrooms. But this is very important should the sauce be made from fresh mushrooms.) Then stew them for a short time in a small quantity of good white sauce, after which rub the whole through a wire sieve, and then add about an equal quantity of boiling cream. Brown mushroom sauce is made by stewing the mushrooms for a short time in some good, rich, brown gravy, and nibbing the whole through a wire sieve, when the consistency of this mushroom sauce should be about that of double cream. I have on several occasions in the present work mentioned double cream as a standard of consistency. Perhaps, how- ever, there are many — especially those who live in London — who have not only never seen double cream, but Oven cream itself. Indeed, pure cream is almost unobtainable in London. The consistency of double cream is about the same as that of ordinary gruel. If white mushroom sauce is required, and cream cannot be obtained, the sauce can be made as follows : — Get some good white stock and reduce it till it is almost a glaze ; then add to it half a pint of boiling milk ; put in the mushrooms, and let them stew in the white sauce a short time ; then rub it through a wire sieve. A little pepper and salt should • be added according to taste

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.