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ENGLISH WHITE SAUCE
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ENGLISH WHITE SAUCE

6 ingredients 2 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

51
Calories
0g
Protein
5g
Fat
0g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 2 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • a pint of boiling cream
  • 1/2 pint
  • 1 lemon-rind
  • 1 teaspoonful
  • 1/4 pint
  • salt

Directions

1

Boil softly in half a pint of well-flavoured pale veal gravy a few very thin strips of fresh lemon-rind, for just sufficient time to give their flavour to it; stir in a thickening of arrow-root, or of flour and butter, add salt if needed, and mix with the gravy a quarter of a pint of boiling cream. For the best kind of white sauce, see béchamel, page 107.

2

Good pale veal gravy, 1/2 pint; third of 1 lemon-rind: 15 to 20 minutes. Freshly pounded mace, third of saltspoonful; butter, 1 to 2 oz.; flour, 1 teaspoonful (or arrow-root an equal quantity); cream, 1/4 pint.

By Eliza Acton · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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