Cold Lemon Sauce

Original Recipe

Beat to a cream one teacupful of butter and two teacupfuls of fine white sugar; then stir in the juice and grated rind of one lemon; grate nutmeg upon the sauce and serve on a flat dish.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cream one teacupful of butter and two teacupfuls of fine white sugar
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 flat dish

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Instructions

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    Beat to a cream one teacupful of butter and two teacupfuls of fine white sugar; then stir in the juice and grated rind of one lemon; grate nutmeg upon the sauce and serve on a flat dish.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)