This section is from the book "Physical Culture Cook Book", by Bernarr MacFadden, Mrs. Mary Richardson and Geo. Propheter. Also available from Amazon: Physical Culture Cook Book.
One and a half teaspoonfuls flour, two ounces butter, one small cup hot water; wet the flour to a paste with cold water, and stir in the hot water. When boiling add the butter and stir until well mixed. Boil one minute.
Heat one cup milk to boiling point and add one tablespoon-ful of butter rubbed to a cream with two tea-spoonfuls flour, stirring the while. Add a pinch of salt and boil one minute.
Heat one pint cream, or one-half milk and one-half cream, in a double boiler, with a little salt and a little chopped parsley; thicken with one tablespoon-ful butter creamed with one tablespoonful flour. Boil one minute.
Put one table-spoonful butter in a saucepan, and when hot add one tablespoonful flour and stir till smooth. Add gradually one cupful milk or cream, a little salt, a few drops onion juice, and boil up once.
Make a drawn butter sauce No. 2 and add two hard-boiled eggs chopped fine and a little minced parsley.
Rub one-half cup butter to a cream; add the yolks of two eggs, one at a time, and beat well; stir in the juice of half a lemon, one saltspoonful salt; when ready to serve add one-half cup boiling water, place the bowl in a pan of boiling water or in the top of teakettle and cook until thick as custard, stirring all the time.
Make a mayonnaise dressing and add one tablespoonful finely chopped Gherkins pickles.
To one cup drawn butter No. I add one teaspoonful minced parsley and the juice of a lemon. Boil up and serve.
 
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