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Lemon Sauce for Fowls

A simple lemon sauce made with butter and lemon, served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,227 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Lemon Sauce for Fowls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare off the rind and remove the thick white skin and pips from the lemon.

  2. Cut the lemon into small dice.

Make the sauce

  1. Combine the lemon dice with the melted butter in a saucepan.

  2. Heat the mixture thoroughly without boiling.

  3. Serve immediately, adding minced lemon rind if desired.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Lemon
Provides the sharp acidity and fresh citrus flavour that defines the sauce.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, silky body as it melts into the sauce.

The step that matters

Heat the mixture thoroughly without boiling. Butter emulsions can separate and turn greasy when overheated, so gentle heat keeps the sauce smooth and cohesive.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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