Browning

Ingredients

• one cup of sugar
• a cup of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Heat sugar in an iron saucepan until dark brown.

2. 2

   Add boiling water carefully, stir, and cook until a thin syrup forms.

3. 3

   Bottle for later use.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Left overs (1898) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

browning or kitchen bouquet and the usual sea- soning of salt and pepper. To change the character of this sauce add garlic, onion, Worcestershire sauce, mushroom catsup, etc. Brown Tomato Sauce An exceedingly nice sauce for Ham- burg steaks. After you have taken the steaks from the pan, add a table- spoonful of butter and one of flour ; mix. Fill your measuring cup half full of S8 LEFT OVERS strained tomatoes, the remaining half with stock, making a half pint ; add this to the butter and flour, stir until boiling, add a seasoning of salt and pepper and pour over the steaks. Roasted Beef Qravy Roasted beef gravy, which really should be a sauce, is improved by adding a little tomato to the stock before adding it to the fat and flour. In roasting meats, we do not use butter for the sauce ; there is always suflicient fat in the bottom of the pan. Pour from the pan all but one or two tablespoonfuls of fat (the amount required) and add to that the flour. A rounding tablespoon- ful of butter to which we refer weighs an ounce ; of liquid fat, as in the pan, you must allow two even tablespoonfuls to the ounce ; so, if you are going to make a half pint of sauce take out all but two tablespoonfuls of fat; add one table- spoonful of flour and then the half pint of water or stock. Browning Plain burned sugar (caramel) may be used to color soups and sauces, thus SAUCES 59 saving the trouble of browning the flour or butter. It is also used as a flavoring for sweets. Put one cup of sugar, dry, into an iron saucepan. Stand it over a hot fire, and stir continually until it is reduced to a dark brown liquid. When it begins to bum and smoke, add hastily a cup of boiling water

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