Buckeye Cookery

Tried and approved: the great American housekeeping bible of 1880.

Sauces

17 recipes in this part of Buckeye Cookery.

Butterless Sauce

Place one half a gill of milk in a pan in boiling water; when scalding put in half a pint of powdered sugar mixed with the yolks of two…

Cider Sauce

Mix two table-spoons butter with an even table-spoon of flour; stir in half a pint of brown sugar, and half a gill of boiled cider; add a…

Cocoa-Nut Sauce

Two table-spoons butter, cup of sugar, table-spoon of flour, milk of one cocoa-nut, with a small piece grated.

Cream Sauce (One tea-cup powdered white)

One tea-cup powdered white sugar, scant half tea-cup butter, half tea-cup rich cream; beat butter and sugar thoroughly, add cream, stir the…

Cold Cream Sauce

Beat together one cup sugar and half cup butter, and add a cup rich cream. Stir all to a cream, flavoring with vanilla or lemon, and place…

Plain Cream Sauce

One pint cream, three table-spoons brown sugar, and half a small nutmeg grated.

Every-Day Sauce

To one pint boiling water, add heaping tea-cup sugar, table-spoon butter (see General Directions), pinch of salt, and table-spoon corn…

Foaming Sauce

Beat whites of three eggs to a stiff froth; melt tea cup of sugar in a little water, let it boil, stir in one glass wine, and then the…

Jelly Sauce

Melt one ounce of sugar and two table-spoons grape jelly over the fire in a half pint of boiling water, and stir into it half a tea-spoon…

Lemon Sauce (Two cups sugar two eggs juice)

Two cups sugar, two eggs, juice and rind of two lemons; beat all together, and just before serving add pint boiling water; set on stove…

Maple: Sugar Sauce

Melt over a slow fire, in a small tea-cup of water, half a pint maple sugar; let it simmer, removing all scum; add four tablespoons butter…

Minnehaha Sauce

Beat, in a two quart bowl, four table-spoons butter and two thirds pint brown sugar, to a cream, with a wooden spoon; then add four…

Orange Hard Sauce

Select a thin orange, cut the skin into six equal parts, by cutting through the skin at the stem end and passing the knife around the…

Pine-Apple Sauce

Mix two table-spoons butter and four heaping table-spoons sugar (some add white of an egg), flavor with pine-apple (or any other…

Strawberry Sauce

Half tea-cup of butter, one and a half tea-cups of sugar, and one pint of strawberries mashed till juicy. (Canned berries may be…

Vinegar Sauce

One and a half cups sugar, one and a half table-spoons flour in a little water, two table-spoons vinegar, quarter of a grated nutmeg, and a…

Whipped Cream Sauce

Whip a pint of thick sweet cream, add the beaten whites of two eggs, sweeten to taste; place pudding in center of dish, and surround with…

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