The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

Sauces

36 recipes in this part of 20th Century Cook Book.

Oyster Sauce

Make a nice drawn butter with half cupful butter, one tablespoonful flour, one cupful milk, a little salt; when boiled and thickened, add…

Celery Sauce

Make drawn butter same as for oyster sauce, add four heads of celery that have been boiled in salted water until tender and chopped very…

Champagne Sauce

Use one tablespoonful of butter. Mix thoroughly with same of flour; place on the fire in a saucepan and stir constantly until the…

Tartare Sauce

Chop three olives, one gherkin and a tablespoonful of capers. Add them to one-half pint of mayonnaise dressing; thin with a tablespoonful…

Bread Sauce

One pint of milk, three-fourths of a pound of dry bread crumbs, one onion, one ounce of butter, mace, salt and cayenne to taste. Cut up the…

Maitre D'Hotel Sauce

To one cup of melted butter, add a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, the juice of one lemon, salt and a small pinch of cayenne. Let this…

Drawn-Butter Sauce

To one-half cup of butter, add a very little flour (not a large spoon quite full), with two or three tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Shake…

Mushroom Sauce

Mix two ounces of butter and one teaspoonful of flour smoothly together; put it into a lined saucepan, and pour in one-third pint of milk…

Nasturtium Sauce

Make a drawn butter (about one teacupful), add to it half a cup of pickled nasturtiums; season with salt and pepper. Let them simmer gently…

Onion Sauce (Peel and boil until tender)

Peel and boil until tender four large onions. Drain and chop them very fine; add a cup of new milk, a small lump of butter, and salt and…

Dutch Sauce For Fish

Half a teaspoonful of flour, two ounces of butter, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, same of water, yolks of two eggs, salt to taste. Put all…

Horseradish Sauce

To four tablespoonfuls of grated horseradish put one teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of sugar, one half teaspoonful of pepper, two of…

Egg Sauce

Make a white sauce and add to it hard-boiled eggs chopped fine. This is nice with fish. 1

Parsley Sauce

After washing a bunch of parsley boil for five minutes in salt and water. Drain well and cut the leaves from the stalks and chop them fine…

Sauce Elegante

Make a "drawn-butter sauce" and add to it one teaspoonful of mustard, one tablespoonful of good catsup, one-fourth teacup of vinegar…

Sauce For Calf'S Head

Add to "drawn-butter sauce "the brains mashed fine, a teaspoonful of powdered sage, a pinch of cayenne pepper and salt. To this add one…

Shrimp Sauce

To a "drawn-butter sauce" (about one-half pint), add one pint of shrimps cut in small pieces, a pinch of cayenne pepper, and a teaspoonful…

Wine Sauce For Meats

To three-fourths of a pound of butter, add one and a half pints of jelly, three-fourths cupful of sugar (brown is the best), and a…

Chili Sauce (Eight tablespconfuls sugar)

Eight tablespconfuls sugar. Eight tablespoonfuls of salt.

Chili Sauce (Mrs James Short)

Mrs. James Short. Nine large ripe tomatoes (peeled).

Chili Sauce (Mrs Charles Lester Three large)

Mrs. Charles Lester Three large green peppers. Half cup sugar.

Sauce Bordelaise

Take one onion, not too small, chopped very fine and browned in fat or butter; add to this a cup of strong gravy (beef) and a cup of claret…

Cream Bechamel Sauce

Put into a stewpan six ounces of fresh, sweet butter, add four ounces of sifted flour, two or three pepper corns, salt, and a very little…

Gherkin Sauce

Cut six green gherkins into very thin slices; place them in a small stewpan with a little Tarragon vinegar and pepper. Let these simmer…

Lemon Sauce

Boil some soup stock with a few slices of lemon, a very little sugar and grated nutmeg. Add to this some chopped parsley, a few…

Wild-Fowl Sauce

The following exquisite sauce is applicable to all wild fowl : Take one saltspoon of salt, half to two-thirds saltspoon of cayenne, one…

Piquante Sauce

Cut up about half an ounce of onions and fry in a couple of spoonfuls of good vinegar. Cook dry, but great care must be used to see that it…

Allemande Sauce

Put one ounce of butter into a pan. Stir into it one ounce of flour, add to it half a pint of white stock or broth. Stir constantly and as…

Herring Sauce

Chop a few herring fine, add to it some soup stock, a spoonful of flour browned in hot fat, also an onion chopped very fine. (The herring…

Sauce For Barbecues

Mix together one-half pound of fresh butter, one tablespoonful of mustard, half a teaspoonful of red pepper, the same of black pepper, salt…

Salad Dressing (Yolks of four hard-boiled eggs)

Yolks of four hard-boiled eggs. Half bottle best olive oil.

Salad Dressing (Two tablespoonfuls olive oil)

Two tablespoonfuls olive oil or melted butter. One and one-half teaspoonfuls mustard.

A Royal Salad Dressing

Pour Boil three eggs hard and let them get cold. Take the yolks and mix with two or three tablespoonfuls of rich cream. Then mix together…

Salad Dressing (Yolks of three hard-boiled)

Yolks of three hard-boiled eggs, two tablespoonfuls powdered sugar, one dessertspoonful olive oil, one teaspoonful of salt, one…

French Dressing

Two teaspoonfuls mustard. One teaspoonful salt.

Mayonnaise Dressing

One teaspoonful mustard. One teaspoonful powdered sugar.

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