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sauce is thick, but be careful not to let it boil, or it will burn.
Serve it up in a sauce-tureen.
299.—Sauce for Boiled Mutton or Boiled Brisket of Beef
Warm a saucepan, and melt in it two chittacks or four ounces of butter
free of water; fry in it a tablespoonful of finely-sliced onions; when
half browned, put in gradually two tablespoonfuls of finely-sifted
flour, taking care to keep stirring it the whole time; then add
gradually eight chittacks or sixteen ounces of pure milk, and lastly
two wineglasses of vinegar, with finely-pounded white pepper and salt
to taste. This sauce is without its equal.
300.—Fresh Tomato Gravy Sauce for Made Dishes
Take forty tomatoes (halved), some soup herbs, and salt; boil them in
a little stock; strain through a sieve, replace on the fire, and
thicken with the addition, more or less, of a dessertspoonful of
arrowroot or corn or other flour, to obtain any required consistency;
finally add a teaspoonful of good English vinegar; if a sharper gravy
sauce be required, instead of the vinegar add either a dessertspoonful
of tapp sauce or a teaspoonful of chili vinegar.
301.—Tapp Sauce Gravy for Made Dishes
Thicken a good seasoned stock with arrowroot or corn-flour; add to
every cup of the thickened stock a tablespoonful of tapp sauce. Pour
it while hot over chicken, veal, beef, or prawn cutlets, or other made
dishes.
302.—Sauce for Cucumber Salad
Slice into a soup-plate two large Patna onions and a couple of fresh
chilies; sprinkle over with ground pepper and a little salt; then add
two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, and allow to stand for two or three
hours before adding to it the sliced cucumbers. This sauce is also
used occasionally for lobster and prawn salads.
303.—Parsley Sauce
Pick, clean, and mince fine some fresh green crisp parsley, and put it
into a tureen with a tablespoonful of chopped capers and a teaspoonful
of good English vinegar. Fry to a nice light brown a dessertspoonful
of curry onions in two chittacks or four ounces of butter, free of
water; add a cup of good white stock, free of fat, and thicken with
crumb of stale bread finely grated, a teaspoonful of salt, and a
little pepper; allow to simmer until of a sufficient consistency; then
pour it over the minced parsley and capers, mix well together, and it
is ready for use.
304.—Onion Sauce
Clean and boil six or eight good Patna onions; allow the water to
drain away; fry to a light brown colour, in two chittacks or four
ounces of butter, free of water, a dessertspoonful of finely-sliced
curry onions; then gradually mix into it a tablespoonful of
finely-sifted flour and half a seer of milk, taking care through the
whole operation to keep stirring the sauce to prevent its lumping; add
a teaspoonful of salt and a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper; last
of all add the boiled onions, and in a few minutes the sauce will be
ready.
305.—White Onion Sauce
Peel and cut in halves eight large and perfectly sound white Patna
onions, and steep them in water for half an hour; then boil them until
quite tender; drain them of all water; then chop and bruise them fine,
and put them into a saucepan, with half a chittack or one ounce of
butter, half a teaspoonful of salt, and some milk; put the mixture
over a brisk fire, and keep stirring till it boils; then rub the whole
through a sieve, after which add sufficient milk to make the sauce of
the consistency required. This is a favourite sauce for boiled mutton,
over which some occasionally strew a tablespoonful of capers.
306.—Brown Onion Sauce for Gravy
Heat one chittack or two ounces of butter, free of water, in which fry
to a light brown half a dozen well-selected white Patna onions finely
sliced; then stir into it gradually half a chittack or one ounce of
flour; add a little stock and some pepper and salt, boil up for a few
minutes, strain through a sieve, and then add a tablespoonful of port
wine, and the same of mushroom catsup. Lemon-juice or vinegar may be
added if a sharper gravy be required.
307.—Sauce for Boiled Beef
Mince a large onion, parboil it, and drain off the water; put the
onion into a saucepan, with a tablespoonful of finely-chopped parsley,
some good gravy, and one ounce of butter dredged with a little flour;
let it boil nearly ten minutes, and add a spoonful of cut capers. The
sauce must be thoroughly heated before being served up.
308.—Sauce for any kind of Meat
Take three tablespoonfuls of gravy, two of vinegar, a blade of mace, a
little pepper and salt, and a large onion sliced; boil and strain.
309.—Lobster Sauce
Pound very finely the spawn of a lobster, rub it through a sieve, mix
it with a quarter of a pound of melted butter, and then add the meat
of the lobster cut into small bits. Make it quite hot, but do not
allow it to boil.
310.—Oyster Sauce
Beard and scald the oysters; strain the liquor, and thicken it with a
little flour and butter; squeeze in a little lemon-juice, and add
three tablespoonfuls of cream. Heat it well, but do not let it boil.
311.—Sauce for Roast Beef
Mix well together a large tablespoonful of finely-grated horseradish,
a dessertspoonful of made mustard, and half a dessertspoonful of brown
sugar; then add vinegar till it be as thick as made mustard. Serve in
a sauce-tureen.
312.—To make a Quart Bottle of Fish or Meat Sauce
To half a bottle of vinegar put one ounce of cayenne, two cloves of
garlic, one tablespoonful of soy, two of walnut, and two of mushroom
catsup. Let it stand six days, shaking it frequently; then add the
remaining half of the bottle of vinegar, let it stand another week,
strain, and put it into small bottles.
313.—Pink Sauce for Fish
Put into a pan, or wide-mouthed jar, one quart of good vinegar, half a
pint of port wine, half an ounce of cayenne, one large tablespoonful
of walnut catsup, two of anchovy liquor, a quarter of an ounce of
cochineal, and six cloves of garlic. Let it remain forty hours,
stirring it two or three times a day; run it through a flannel bag,
and put it into half-pint bottles.
314.—Bread Sauce
Boil in a pint of water the crumb of a French roll or of a slice of
bread, a minced onion, and some whole pepper; when the onion is tender
drain off the water, pick out the peppercorns, and rub the bread
through a sieve; then put it into a saucepan, with a gill of cream, a
bit of butter, and a little salt; stir it till it boils, and serve in
a sauce-tureen.
315.—Apple Sauce
Pare, core, and slice some apples; boil them in water with a bit of
lemon-peel; when tender, mash them; add to them a bit of butter the
size of a walnut, and some brown sugar. Heat, and serve in a
sauce-tureen.
316.—Egg Sauce
Boil three or four eggs about a quarter of an hour; put them into cold
water, take off the shells, cut three of the whites and four yolks in
small pieces, mix them with melted butter, and heat it well.
317.—Shrimp Sauce
Pick some shrimps nicely from the shell, put them into melted butter,
and add a tablespoonful of lemon pickle and vinegar; heat it.
318.—Mint Sauce
Pick and wash some green mint; add, when minced, a tablespoonful of
the young leaves to four of vinegar, and put it into a sauce-tureen,
with a teaspoonful of brown sugar.
319.—Pudding Sauce
Mix with half a pint of melted butter two wineglasses of sherry and a
tablespoonful of pounded loaf sugar; make it quite hot, and serve in a
sauce-tureen, with grated nutmeg on the top.
320.—Parsley and Butter
Pick and wash clean a large bunch of parsley, tie it up, and boil it
for a few minutes in water; drain and chop it very finely, add some
melted butter, and make it quite hot. It is better to be made thick
with parsley.
321.—Melted Butter
Dust a little flour over a quarter of a pound of butter, and put it
into a saucepan, with about a wineglass of water; stir it one way
constantly till it is melted, and let it just boil: a round wooden
stick is the best thing to stir batter with in melting. If the butter
is to be melted with cream, use the same proportion as of water, but
no flour; stir it constantly, and heat it thoroughly, but do not let
it boil.
322.—French Melted Butter
Mix in a stewpan, with a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, a
tablespoonful of flour, a little salt, half a gill of water, half a
spoonful of white vinegar, and a little grated nutmeg. Put it on the
fire, stir it, and let it thicken, but do not allow it to boil, lest
it should taste of the flour.
323.—Stuffing for Hare or Kid
Parboil the liver, and mince it; add an equal quantity of grated
bread, double the quantity of fat bacon chopped, and a bit of butter
the size of a walnut. Season with pepper, salt, nutmeg, chopped lemon
thyme, and parsley; bind with an egg beaten.
324.—Stuffing peculiar for Fowls only
Take four boiled potatoes; break them into pieces while hot, and add a
chittack or two ounces of butter free of water, some pepper and salt,
a little grated bread-crumb, and some eight or ten olives stoned, and
cut or chopped small; the quantity of potatoes and bread-crumb may be
increased or decreased according to the size of the fowl or number of
fowls to be stuffed; moisten with a little stock or gravy before
stuffing the fowls.
325.—Stuffing for Roast Pig, Roast Kid, Fillets of Veal, and Duck
Break up, but not mash, six boiled potatoes with one chittack or two
ounces of butter free from water; cut into fine slices two white Patna
onions, take a little finely-chopped suet, finely-grated crumbs of a
slice of stale bread, a teaspoonful of ground pepper, a teaspoonful of
salt, all kinds of soup herbs, and a dessertspoonful of tomato or tapp
sauce, add a little of the stock or gravy of the giblets, &c., and
stuff the pig, kid, or bird. The quantity of potatoes may be increased
or decreased according to the size of the roast to be stuffed.
N.B.—The liver may be cut up or minced, and added to the stuffing.
326.—Stuffing for Boiled Turkey, Goose, or Duck
Mince a quarter of a pound of beef suet, and grate fine the crumbs of
a thick slice of stale bread; add a good quantity of soup herbs,
finely sliced and chopped Patna onions, lemon-peel, some grated
nutmeg, a teaspoonful of white pepper, a teaspoonful of salt, half a
dozen oysters, and an anchovy, or in the absence of anchovies a little
minced ham or tongue; melt down one chittack or two ounces of butter;
then throw in the above ingredients and warm up well; moisten with
stock, and then stuff the bird.
327.—Stuffing for Roast Duck
Slice into fine long strips or ribbons as much of the heart or inside
of a young tender cabbage as will suffice for stuffing; wash and dry
it through a colander, and shake it up in a napkin, without crushing
or destroying the crispness
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