Chapter III · The Small Compound Sauces · No. 66
66—Butter Sauce
Mix two oz. of sifted flour with two oz. of melted butter. Dilute with one quart of boiling water, salted to the extent of one-quarter oz. per quart. Stir briskly to ensure a perfect leason, and do not allow to boil. Add immediately the yolks of six eggs mixed with one-quarter pint of cream and the juice of half a lemon. Rub through a tammy, and finish the sauce with five oz. of best fresh butter.
Be careful that the sauce does not boil after it has been thickened.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 66, p. 34. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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