Name: Sauce for Salmon and Other Fish
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cupful of milk heated to a boil and thickened with a tablespoonful of cornstarch previously wet up with cold water; 1 great spoonful of butter; 1 raw egg beaten light; 1 lemon; 3 minutes

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One cupful of milk heated to a boil and thickened with a tablespoonful of cornstarch previously wet up with cold water, the liquor from the salmon, one great spoonful of butter, one raw egg beaten light, the juice of half a lemon, mace and cayenne pepper to taste. Add the egg to thickened milk when you have stirred in the butter and liquor; take from the fire, season and let it stand in hot water three minutes, covered. Lastly put in lemon juice and turn out immediately. Pour it all over and around the salmon.

1 cupful of milk heated to a boil and thickened with a tablespoonful of cornstarch previously wet up with cold water
1 great spoonful of butter
1 raw egg beaten light
1 lemon
3 minutes

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One cupful of milk heated to a boil and thickened with a tablespoonful of cornstarch previously wet up with cold water, the liquor from the salmon, one great spoonful of butter, one raw egg beaten light, the juice of half a lemon, mace and cayenne pepper to taste.
2

Add the egg to thickened milk when you have stirred in the butter and liquor; take from the fire, season and let it stand in hot water three minutes, covered.
3

Lastly put in lemon juice and turn out immediately.
4

Pour it all over and around the salmon.

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