A Cheap and Good Gravy

Ingredients

• Fry three onions in butter
• toast a slice of bread
• any bits of meat, or bone of a leg of mutton
• some herbs
• water in proportion
• boil up with a piece of butter
• and flour

Method

1. 1

   Fry the onions until brown, toast the bread until hard and brown.

2. 2

   Combine with meat, herbs, and water, and stew until rich and thick.

3. 3

   Strain, then boil with butter and flour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts (1900), page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

A Cheap and Good Gravy. Fry three onions in butter a nice brown ; toast a slice of bread a long time, till quite hard and brown, but not burnt. Set these and any bits of meat, or bone of a l$g of mutton, &c. and some herbs, water in proportion, and stew till the gravy is rich and thick. Add salt and pepper; strain off, and boil up with a piece of butter and flour

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