Lemon Butter Sauce - American Recipe

Lemon Butter Sauce

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Tablespoon, Bowl, Knife, Lemon-squeezer

A fundamental lemon butter sauce used across many classic American recipes.

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley

Method

1. Cream — the butter.
2. Add — the lemon juice slowly to the butter while stirring, then add the chopped parsley, and mix thoroughly.

Tags: butter, lemon · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Serve with boiled or baked fish. All the sauce may be placed on the hot whole fish when the latter is ready for serving, or it may be added to the individual portions at the table.