White Sauce

Ingredients

• one-half pint of hot milk or cream
• half water and half milk
• one tablespoonful of butter
• one tablespoonful of cornstarch or one and one-half of flour
• a beaten egg
• a teaspoonful of chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in a saucepan, add cornstarch or flour, and stir until mixed.

2. 2

   Gradually add hot cream while stirring until smooth.

3. 3

   Cook until thick, then add beaten egg and parsley before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE SAUCE— TO BE SERVED WITH CRO- QUETTES. One-half pint of hot milk or cream, or half water and half milk. Into a granite saucepan put one tablespoon- 174 The Complete Cook Book. ful of butter and stir until it bubbles, being careful not to let it brown. Now add one tablespoonful of corn- starcb or one and one-half of flour, and stir rapidly until it is mixed ; then add a little of the cream and stir briskly as it thickens. When perfectly smooth add the rest of the hot cream and cook until very thick. Season with salt and white pepper to taste. Just as you take it from the fire add a beaten egg and a teaspoonful of chopped parsley. This is also nice to serve with blue fish. CRANBERRY SAUCE — SERVED WITH TURKEY. Wash, clean and pick one quart of cranberries ; put them into a granite saucepan with one pint of water and let them stew for one hour, or until tender and soft. Then mash them through a colander and return to the fire. Now warm in the oven one pint of granulated sugar or one and one-half cups of brown sugar, and as soon as the sauce boils, empty in the sugar and cook until it jellies, which will be a very few minutes. Then pour into a bowl or dish and set aside until cold. Never stir cranberries with anything except a silver spoon. EGG SAUCE— TO BE SERVED WITH BOILED FISH OR POULTRY. Melt one-half cup of butter in a saucepan and add to it four hard-boiled eggs sliced; stir well, and then add the juice of one lemon and one teaspoonful of "Worces- tershire sauce. Salt and pepper to taste, and two or three pieces of sliced lemon. Sometimes for a change, one teaspoonful of finely chopped parsley is very nice added. SAUCE TO BE SERVED WITH LETTUCE. Mash with a fork the yolk of one hard-boiled egg, •with a dessertspoonful of ground English mustard and a tablespoonful of sweet cream; add drop by drop two tablespoonfuls of best olive oil; stir well, and then add The Complete Cook Book. 175 the yolk of one raw egg. Salt to taste one teaspoonful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice or vine- gar. Chop the yellow and white of another hard-boiled egg and add to the sauce. STEAK SAUCE. Chop finely two green peppers, two fresh tomatoes, two onions. Let them simmer in a frying pan in but- ter, then throw it over steak, after it has been cooked and seasoned. CELERY SAUCE. Cut in small pieces two heads of celery, and cook in one pint of water with one teaspoonful of salt in it; rub smooth one tablespoonful of butter

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