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Champagne Sauce

From Cooking for profit, 1886

Serves 1

Vinegar can substitute for wine.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 319. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Champagne Sauce. Boil a piece of ham, the thick end, and when nearly done put it in the oven to finish and acquire a brown outside. Slice thin, serve sauce under in the dish. 1071— Champagne Sauce. It is little more than a name for a brown sauce flavored. Take good gravy from the veal or beef pans (No. 576). Put on a spoonful of spices — allspice, cloves and mace — to boil in ^ cup of wine and strain it presently into the gravy. Another way that seems to meet the requirement of a good sauce for roast ham, is to add wine and a little sugar
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