166. White Cucumber Sauce

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
Source
The Modern Housewife
Time
Cook: 15 min Total: 15 min
Status
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Ingredients (7)
Instructions (7)
  1. Peel two cucumbers, divide each lengthways into four, remove the pips, and cut into pieces one inch long.
  2. Add to a stewpan one ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of sugar, half of salt.
  3. Stew on the fire for fifteen minutes.
  4. Then add a gill of white sauce, six spoonfuls of milk, broth, or water.
  5. Simmer gently and skim.
  6. Add a tablespoonful of liaison, and serve where directed.
  7. Observe that all these garnitures ought to be served under the meat and over poultry.
Original Text
166. White Cucumber Sauce.—Peel two cucumbers, divide each lengthways into four, remove the pips, and cut into pieces one inch long; add, in stewpan one ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of sugar, half of salt, let it stew on the fire for fifteen minutes, then add a gill of white sauce, six spoonfuls of milk, broth, or water, simmer gently and skim, add a tablespoonful of liaison, and serve where directed, but observe that all these garnitures ought to be served under the meat and over poultry.
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