Brown Sauce

Ingredients

• Three tablespoonfuls of butter
• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one-quarter teaspoonful of pepper
• one teaspoonful of Bovril
• three gills of water

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter in a frying-pan, and set on the fire.

2. 2

   When hot, add the flour, and stir until smooth and brown.

3. 3

   Draw the pan back to a cooler place, and gradually add the cold water, stirring all the time.

4. 4

   When this boils, add the salt, pepper and extract of meat, and simmer for six minutes.

5. 5

   The flavor of this sauce may be changed by the addition of two tablespoonfuls of tomato or mushroom catsup.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Common sense recipe book (1898) by Sarah Allen, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BROWN SAUCE: Three tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoonfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter teaspoonful of pepper, one teaspoonful of Bovril, three gills of water

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