Brown Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoonful Butter or Dripping
• 1 Onion
• Stir in one teaspoon ful of flour
• add a teacupful of gravy or water
• half a teaspoonful of made mustard
• a few drops of either vinegar, ketchup, or Harvey sauce

Method

1. 1

   Put butter or dripping in a small pan and heat.

2. 2

   Slice onion and fry until brown.

3. 3

   Stir in flour, add gravy or water, and let boil.

4. 4

   Add mustard and vinegar or ketchup, boil for one minute, and strain to keep back the onion.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household cookery and laundry work (1882) by Black Mrs, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BROWN SAUCE. 1 teaspoonful Butter or Mustard. Flour. Dripping. 1 Onion. Put into a small pan the teaspoonful of butter or dripping ; let it get quite hot, then slice a small onion, and fry it in the fat till brown. Stir in one teaspoon ful of flour, add a teacupful of gravy or water, and let it boil ; then add half a teaspoonful of made mustard, and a few drops of either vinegar, ketchup, or Harvey sauce

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.