This section is from the book "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. Also available from Amazon: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
2 teaspoons butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Make a syrup by boiling sugar and water five minutes; remove from fire; add butter and lemon juice.
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup boiling water
1 1/2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice Few gratings nutmeg Few grains salt
Mix sugar and corn-starch, add water gradually, stirring constantly; boil five minutes, remove from fire, add butter, lemon juice, and nutmeg.
1/3 cup butter 1 cup sugar Yolks 3 eggs
1/3 cup boiling water
3 tablespoons lemon juice
Few gratings lemon rind
Cream butter, add sugar gradually, and yolks of eggs, slightly beaten; then add water, and cook over boiling water until mixture thickens. Remove from range, add lemon juice and rind. Serve with Apple Pudding or Popovers.
Make same as Lemon Sauce II, using one teaspoon vanilla in place of lemon juice and nutmeg.
l cup molasses
1 1/2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons lemon juice or 1 tablespoon vinegar
Boil molasses and butter five minutes; remove from fire and add lemon juice.
3/4 cup thick cream 1/4 cup milk
1/3 cup powdered sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Mix cream and milk, beat until stiff, using egg-beater; add sugar and vanilla.
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup thick cream 1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Beat white of egg until stiff; add yolk of egg well beaten, and sugar gradually; dilute cream with milk, beat until stiff, combine mixtures, and flavor.
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla and
1 teaspoon brandy
Beat eggs until very light, add sugar gradually and continue beating; then flavor.
2 eggs
1 cup powdered sugar
3 tablespoons wine
Beat yolks of eggs until thick, add one-half the sugar gradually; beat whites of eggs until stiff, add gradually remaining sugar; combine mixtures, and add wine.
Whites 3 eggs
1 cup powdered sugar
Juice and rind 2 oranges Juice 1 lemon
Beat whites until stiff, add sugar gradually, and continue beating; add rind and fruit juices.
1/3 cup butter
2/3 cup strawberries
1 cup powdered sugar White 1 egg
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, egg beaten until stiff, and strawberries. Beat until fruit is mashed.
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk 2 tablespoons wine
Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and milk and wine drop by drop. If liquids are added too fast the sauce will have a curdled appearance.
 
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