Melted or Drawn Butter.
No. 1.
2 teaspoonfuls flour.
1½ ounce butter.
1 teacupful hot water or milk.
A little salt.
Put the flour and salt in a bowl, and add a little at a time of the water or milk, working it very smooth as you go on. Put into a tin cup or saucepan, and set in a vessel of boiling water. As it warms, stir, and when it has boiled a minute or more, add the butter by degrees, stirring all the time until it is entirely melted and incorporated with the flour and water. Boil one minute.
Mix with milk when you wish to use for puddings, with water for meats and fish.
No. 2.
1½ teaspoonful of flour.
2 ounces butter.
1 teacupful (small) hot water.
Wet the flour to a thin smooth paste with cold water, and stir into the hot, which should be in the inner vessel. When it boils, add the butter by degrees, and stir until well mixed. Boil one minute.
No. 3.
3 ounces butter.
Half-pint water (hot).
A beaten egg.
1 heaping teaspoonful flour.
Wet the flour to a smooth paste with a little cold milk, and add to the hot water in the inner vessel, stirring until thick. Have ready the beaten egg in a cup. Take a teaspoonful of the mixture from the fire, and beat with this until light; then another, and still another. Set aside the cup when this is done, and stir the butter into the contents of the inner saucepan gradually, until thoroughly mixed, then add the beaten egg in the same way. There is no danger of clotting the egg, if it be treated as I have described.