Two small cauliflowers, 1 1/2 oz. butter, 1 tablespoonful flour, pepper and salt, yolks of 2 eggs, juice of a lemon.

Boil 2 small cauliflowers; when done, pick them out into sprigs and arrange them, heads downward, in a pudding basin, which must have been made quite hot; press them in gently, then turn them out dexterously on a dish, and pour over them the following sauce, boiling hot: Melt 1 1/2 oz. butter in a saucepan, mix with it a tablespoonful of flour, and then add 1/2 pint of boiling water; stir till it thickens; add salt and white pepper to taste; then take the saucepan off the fire, and stir in the yolks of 2 eggs beaten up with the juice of a lemon and strained.