The frugal housewife; or, experienced cook : wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and elegance is explained in five hundred approved receipts ... / originally written by Susanna Carter, but now improved by an experienced cook in one of the principal taverns in the city of London.

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Sauces for White Fords, fc. them up with a good piece, of butter; shake a little Hour Ld, and stir it all together with a little cream, if you have it, (or milk will do ;) put the sauce into boats, and garnish with lemon. Another way to make sauce : take half a pint of oys- ters, strain the liquor, and put the oysters with the liquor in a saucepan, with a blade or two of mace, let them just lump, pour in a glass of white wine, let it boil once, and thicken it with a piece of butter rolled in flour. Serve this up by itself, with good gravy in the dish, for every body does not love oyster-sauce. This makes a pretty side-dish for supper, or a corner-dish of a table for dinner. If you chafe it in a dish, add half a pint of gravy to it, and boil it np together. To make Mushroom Sauce for White Fowls of all Sorts. Take a quart of fresh mushrooms, well cleaned and wash- ed, cut them in two, put them in a stewpan, with a little butter, a blade of mace, and a little salt; stew it gently for an hour, then add a pint of cream, and the yolks of two eggs beat very well, and keep stirring it till it boils up ; then squeeze half a lemon, put it over the fowls, or turkeys, or in basons, or in a dish, with a piece of French bread first buttered, then toasted brown, arid just dip it in boiling water ; put it in the dish, and the mushrooms over. Mushroom Sauce for White Fowls boiled. Take half a pint of cream, and a quarter of a pound of butter, stir them together one way till it is thick ; then add a spoon- ful of mushroom pickle, pickled mushrooms, or fresh, if you have them Garnish only with lemon. To make Celery Sauce, either for rousted or boiled Fords, Turkeys, Partridges, or any other Game. Take a large bunch of celery, wash and pare it clean, cut it in little thin bits, and boil it softly in a little water till it is ten- der ; then add a little beaten mace, nutmeg, pepper, and salt, thickened with a piece of butter rolled in flour ; then boil it up, and pour it in a dish. \ on may make it with cream thus : boil celery as