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White Sauce

From Vegetarian cookery, 1891

Serves 1

A very good white sauce may be made by adding mushrooms to butter sauce.

Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Sauce. Half a pint of mushroom broth, quarter of a pint of new milk, half an oimce of onion, a blade of mace, one ounce of flour, one ounce and a half of butter, juice of a lemon, two yolks of eggs, and four table-spoonfuls of good cream

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