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Melted Butter

A historical recipe from Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907).

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A historical recipe

Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #12069.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. one pint of milk
  2. one teaspoonful of salt
  3. three ounces of butter
  4. two tablespoonfuls of flour rubbed

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. Take one pint of milk and one teaspoonful of salt;
  2. when it boils stir into it three ounces of butter, a little cayenne and two tablespoonfuls of flour rubbed into it.
  3. Let it boil one minute and serve at once.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures, by Joe Tilden (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #12069 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12069). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.