Meatless Cookery

Published as America rationed meat for the war, this is a whole cuisine built without it — nut roasts and cheese soufflés, dasheen and okra soups, vegetable gelatine, and a chapter on what to do with the whites of eggs.

Sauces

21 recipes in this part of Meatless Cookery.

White Sauce (Tablespoons butter tablespoons)

4 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons flour 2 cups milk 1 teaspoon salt Heat the milk in a double boiler, but do not let it reach the scalding…

Thin White Sauce

2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 2 cups milk 1 teaspoon salt Put together the same as white sauce. Add one tablespoon of capers for…

Sauce for Vegetables

3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk 1 cup liquid in which the vegetable is cooked 1 teaspoon salt Put together as for white…

Bechamel Sauce

1 pint milk 4 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons chopped onions 2/3 cup chopped celery 1 1/2 teaspoons salt Add the…

Cream Sauce

1/3 pint cream 2/3 pint milk 1 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons flour Heat the milk and cream to scalding in a double boiler. Moisten the flour…

Celery Sauce

2 cups chopped celery 2 cups water 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk 1 1/2 tablespoons butter 1 1/2 tablespoons flour Cook the celery in the…

Cream Tomato Sauce

2 cups milk 6 tablespoons flour 6 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup strained tomato or 1/3 cup condensed tomato with 2/3 cup water…

Tomato Sauce

1 1/2 cups strained, stewed tomato or 1/2 cup condensed tomato and one cup water 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt…

English Mushroom Sauce

2 tablespoons chopped onion 1/3 cup strained stewed tomato 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup mushrooms 1 1/2 cups brown sauce…

Drawn Butter Sauce

1/3 or 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup flour 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 pint boiling water 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1/2 teaspoon salt Prepare as…

Hollandaise Sauce

1 tablespoon flour 4 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon of cream Salt, pepper 1 tablespoon lemon juice Put the butter in a saucepan, when it…

Cheese Sauce No. I

1 cup of milk 2 tablespoons flour 1 ounce of cheese--1/4 cup of grated cheese Salt and pepper Thicken the milk with the flour, and just…

Bread Sauce

1 cup bread crumbs 1 teaspoon butter 6 pepper corns 1/2 pint milk 1 small onion Salt, paprika Put the milk and an equal quantity of water…

Hard Sauce

1/3 cup butter 2 tablespoons sherry or 1 cup powdered sugar 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg Cream the butter; add the sugar. Continue beating until…

Cocoanut Sauce

1 pint milk 1/2 cup shredded cocoanut 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 cup sugar Braid the cornstarch with a little of the cold milk. Steep…

To Whip Cream

1 pint whipped cream 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon flavoring Chill the cream by placing in the inner portion of a double boiler and…

Mock Whipped Cream

1 cup milk 1 teaspoon flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla Mix the flour, sugar and salt, with a little cold milk, together. Pour…

Vanilla Sauce

3 tablespoons flour 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup water 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Mix the sugar and flour together. Add the boiling…

Maple Sauce

1 cup maple syrup 1 cup water 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 tablespoons butter Moisten the cornstarch with a little of the cold water. Heat the…

Raspberry Sauce

1 1/2 cups raspberry juice 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 1/2 tablespoons water Heat the juice from the canned berries, and add the cornstarch…

Lemon Sauce

1 pint boiling water 1 cup sugar 1 lemon--juice and rind 3 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons butter Braid the flour with cold water, and add…

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