White Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 pt. of milk
• 2 or 3 mushrooms
• I onion
• I carrot
• I bundle of sweet herbs
• whole pepper and salt to taste
• whole pepper and salt to taste
• a few cloves
• a little mace
• I oz. of butter
• and 1 gillofcream

Method

1. 1

   Combine milk, mushrooms, onion, carrot, sweet herbs, pepper, salt, cloves, and mace in a pot.

2. 2

   Simmer for about an hour, then add butter and stir until thickened.

3. 3

   Finish by stirring in cream.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Sauce—Ingredients—1 pt. of milk, 2 or 3 mushrooms, I onion, I carrot, I bundle of sweet herbs, whole pepper and salt to : taste, a few cloves, a little mace, I oz. of butter, and 1 gillofcream,. Put into one pint of milk two or three mushrooms, an ‘onion and a carrot cut into pieces, a bundle of sweet herbs ; whole pepper and salt to taste

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