Brown Sauce

Ingredients

• one. table-spoonful and a half of butter
• a generous table-spoonful of flour
• half a pint of stock
• a level teaspoonful of salt
• about one-fifth of a teaspoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Put butter in a frying-pan on the fire.

2. 2

   When hot and beginning to brown, add flour and stir until dark brown.

3. 3

   Draw the pan back, stir until cool, then add stock gradually while stirring.

4. 4

   Place on hot part of stove, stir until boiling, then add salt and pepper.

5. 5

   Simmer for five minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 293. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brown Sauce. Put one. table-spoonful and a half of butter in the frying-pan and on the fire. When the butter gets hot and begins to turn brown, add a generous table-spoonful of flour, and stir until the flour turns dark brown. Now draw the pan to the back part of the stove, and stir until the mixture cools slightly ; then add half a pint of stock, pouring it in gradually and stirring all the while. Place the pan on the hot part of the stove, and stir the sauce until it begins to boil. Add a level teaspoonful of salt and about one-fifth of a teaspoonful of pepper

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