Sauce for Boiled Fish or Boiled Mutton

Origin: Mobile, Alabama

Source: Abby Fisher, 1881

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Rub the flour and butter together until creamed.
  2. Boil the sweet milk.
  3. Add the boiled milk gradually to the creamed butter and flour, stirring constantly until thoroughly mixed.
  4. Season with pepper and salt to taste.
  5. Boil the eggs hard.
  6. Slice the eggs lengthways into four pieces each.
  7. Arrange the egg slices around the dish when you take up the fish to send to table.
  8. Garnish the dish with parsley.

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