This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
Put in a saucepan one pint of fish veloute, three tablespoon-fuls each of mushroom liquor, oyster liquor and twice as much sole fumet, the yolks of three eggs, a few drops of lemon-juice, and a gill of cream. Reduce by a good third on an open fire, season with a little cayenne, rub through a sieve, and finish with two ounces of butter and four tablespoonfuls of good cream.
This sauce is proper for fillet of sole à la Normande, and is also used as the base of other small sauces.
 
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