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Orange Sauce

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Beeton's household management, by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton (1907).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards. Printed in United Kingdom: that says where the book was made, not where the dish comes from.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pint of milk
  2. a tablespoonful of orange-juice

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. Ingredients.
  2. — £ of a pint of milk, i glass of curacoa, 2 yolks of eggs, 2 ozs.
  3. of castor sugar, i small orange.
  4. Method.
  5. — Boil the milk, add the sugar, the grated orange rind, and a tablespoonful of orange-juice, simmer for 5 minutes, then cool slightly.
  6. Beat the eggs with a little milk, pour them into the saucepan, stir until they begin to thicken, then add the cura9oa, and serve.
  7. Time.
  8. — About | an hour.
  9. Average Cost, ;d.
  10. to 8d.
  11. for this quantity.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Whisk
  • Grater
  • Wooden spoon
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Mrs. Beeton's household management (1907), printed page 268, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsbeetonshouse00beetuoft

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.