Cream Sauce for Fish or White Dishes

Ingredients

• 1/3 pint cream
• 2 oz butter
• 1 teaspoonful flour
• salt and cayenne to taste, when liked
• a small quantity of pounded mace or lemon-juice

Instructions

1. Put the butter in a very clean saucepan, dredge in the flour, and keep shaking round till the butter is melted.
2. Add the seasoning and cream, and stir the whole till it boils;
3. let it just simmer for 5 minutes, when add either pounded mace or lemon-juice to taste, to give it a flavour.