Mushroom Sauce
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 quart fresh mushrooms
- salt
- 1 blade of mace
- butter
- 1/2 pint cream
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 piece bread
Instructions
- Clean and wash one quart of fresh mushrooms, cut them in two, and put them into a stew-pan with a little salt, a blade of mace, and a little butter.
- Stew them gently for half an hour.
- Then add half a pint of cream and the yelks of two eggs beat very well.
- Keep stirring it till it boils up.
- Put it over the fowls or turkies; or you may put it on a dish with a piece of fried bread first buttered, then toasted brown, and just dipped into boiling water.
- This is very good sauce for white fowls of all kinds.