Chapter III · The Small Compound Sauces · No. 93
Built upon: No. 151Manied Butter
93—Mousseuse Sauce
Scald and wipe a small vegetable-pan, and put into it one-half lb. of stiffly-No. 151, Manied Butter butter, properly softened. Season this butter with table-salt and a few drops of lemon-juice, and whisk it while gradually adding one-third pint of cold water. Finish with two tablespoonfuls of very firm, whipped cream. This preparation, though classified as a sauce, is really a compound butter, which is served with boiled fish. The heat of the fish alone suffices to melt it, and its appearance is infinitely more agreeable than that of plain, melted butter.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 93, p. 40. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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