Anchovy Sauce for Beef

Ingredients

• four anchovies
• some flour
• butter
• half a pint of broth
• salt if required
• pepper if required
• an inch of cucumber
• a teaspoonful of bruised capers

Method

1. 1

   Wash and dry anchovies, remove bones, and cut into pieces.

2. 2

   Sift flour over them and fry in butter for 5-6 minutes.

3. 3

   Pour broth over, add salt, pepper, and cucumber.

4. 4

   Simmer for 20 minutes, then stir in capers before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 382. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Anchovy Sauce for Beef. — Wash four anchovies, dry them well, re- move the bones, and cut the flesh into small pieces. Sift some flour over these, and fry them in butter over a gentle fire for five or six minutes. Pour half a pint of broth over them, add salt and pepper if required, and an inch of cucumber cut into dice. Simmer the sauce, and before send- ing to table stir into it a teaspoonful of bruised capers

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