WHITE SAUCE (a very Simple and Inexpensive Method)

Ingredients

• 1-1/2 pint milk
• 1-1/2 oz rice
• 1 strip lemon-peel
• 1 small blade of pounded mace
• salt and cayenne to taste

Instructions

1. Boil the milk with the lemon-peel and rice until the latter is perfectly tender, then take out the lemon-peel and pound the milk and rice together;
2. put it back into the stewpan to warm, add the mace and seasoning, give it one boil, and serve.
3. This sauce should be of the consistency of thick cream.