Sauce (White), for Hot Boiled Chicken (Mrs. Etheridge.)

Ingredients

• tablespoonful flour
• 1 oz butter
• 1 pint milk
• button mushrooms
• lemon peel
• 1 lemon
• salt
• white pepper

Instructions

1. Stir the flour and 1 oz. of butter together.
2. Boil 1 pint of milk, add it to the flour, and stir till creamy. Add a little salt, a little white pepper, a little lemon-peel, and some button mushrooms.
3. Add the juice of a lemon and pour the sauce over the boiled chicken.
4. The chicken is to be previously boiled in a floured cloth for one and a half hours.