This section is from the book "The Laurel Health Cookery", by Evora Bucknum Perkins. Also available from Amazon: The Laurel Health Cookery.
1 1/2 cup water, 1 tablespn. flour
1/2 cup sugar, 1 teaspn. vanilla
1/2 cup cream, salt
Mix flour and sugar, pour boiling water over stirring, boil up well, add cream and a trifle of salt, remove from fire and stir in vanilla. For pineapple sago or tapioca, flavor sauce delicately with rose.
Use milk in place of water. Serve plain, or flavor with orange, almond or lemon, and vanilla.
2 tablespns. of butter or the yolk of an egg may be used with a half cup more of milk instead of the 1/2 cup of cream.
Pour hot white sauce slowly, stirring, over whites of 2 eggs, stiffly-beaten with half the sugar.
 
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