Sauce for boiled Chickens

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Ingredients (14)
Another Sauce
Instructions (7)
  1. Chop the egg yolks, anchovies, bacon middle, and lemon inside very fine.
  2. Add thyme and sweet marjoram.
  3. Thicken all well together with butter.
  4. Pour the sauce over the chickens.
Another Sauce
  1. Shred some anchovies very fine, with the chicken livers and some hard eggs.
  2. Take a little of the boiling water in which the chickens were boiled, to melt the butter.
  3. Add some lemon juice, with a little of the peel cut small.
Original Text
Sauce for boiled Chickens. Take the yolks of four eggs, three anchovies, a little of the middle of bacon, and the inside of half a lemon; chop them all very fine; add a little thyme and sweet marjoram; thicken them all well together with butter, and pour it over the chickens. Another. Shred some anchovies very fine, with the livers of the chickens and some hard eggs; take a little of the boiling water in which the chickens were boiled, to melt the butter. Add some lemon juice, with a little of the peel cut small.
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