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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. one saltspoonful of salt
  2. One-half pint of bread crumbs
  3. one-half pint of milk
  4. Mace
  5. one-half tablespoonful of butter
  6. one-half teaspoonful of nutmeg
  7. one tablespoonful of cream

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. One-half pint of bread crumbs, one-half pint of milk ;
  2. pour the milk boiling hot on to the crumbs and cover closely for thirty minutes, then put into the saucepan with one saltspoonful of salt, one-half teaspoonful of nutmeg, or powdered mace, one-half tablespoonful of butter, and a little cayenne ;
  3. stir for five minutes, then add one tablespoonful of cream, boil all together for a minute, then serve.
  4. The bread crumbs should be from stale bread and made very fine, so that the sauce will be smooth when ready for use.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The 3-6-5 cook book, for use 365 days in the year (1899), printed page 91, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/cu31924089575322

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.