Lemon Sauce

Name: Lemon Sauce (Sauce au Citron)
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: A Tablespoonful of Corn Starch; The Juice and Grated Zest of a Lemon; An Egg, Well-Beaten; A Tablespoonful of Butter; A Pint of Boiling Water; ½ Cupful of Sugar

Sauce au Citron

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Picayune's Creole Cook Book

By The Times Picayune Publishing Company

Published 1901

About

Ingredients

A Tablespoonful of Corn Starch
A Tablespoonful of Butter
A Pi

Americas
United States
Sauce
Gluten-free
New Orleans
Vegetarian

Method

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the well-beaten egg, and then the corn starch, which you will have dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of water. Combine with butter and sugar. When well blended, pour in slowly the boiling water, stirring all the time, and set over the fire till it thickens; st