Common Sauce

Plain butter melted thick, with a spoonful of walnut pickle or catsup, is a very good sauce; but you may put as many things as you choose into sauces.

Original Recipe

Plain butter melted thick, with a spoonful of walnut pickle or catsup, is a very good sauce; but you may put as many things as you choose into sauces.

Ingredients

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  • plain butter, melted

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Required Gear

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Saucepan For melting butter
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Wooden spoon

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Instructions

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    Plain butter melted thick, with a spoonful of walnut pickle or catsup, is a very good sauce; but you may put as many things as you choose into sauces.

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Recipe by mary-randolph from The Virginia Housewife; Or, Methodical Cook (1824)