Currant Jelly Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 onion
• 1 stalk celery
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 bay-leaf
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 2 tablespoons vinegar
• 1/2 cup currant jelly
• 2 cups stock

Method

1. 1

   Slice onion and cook in butter until it begins to color, then add flour and herbs, stirring until brown.

2. 2

   Add vinegar and stock, simmer for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Strain, skim off fat, add jelly, and stir until melted.

4. 4

   This sauce is used with game.

As published

This recipe was extracted from New Delineator recipes. (1929) by Delineator Home Institute, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

tablespoons flour 2 carrots i cup beef or veal stock 2 shallots y2 cup vinegar Thyme Salt and pepper 1 bunch parsley Melt butter or other fat, slice into it onions, carrots and shallots. Add a little thyme, minced parsley, cloves and clove of garlic. Let this mixture cook until the carrot is soft, then add flour. Let it cook for five minutes more, and add beef or veal stock and vinegar, skim, and strain through a sieve. Add salt and pepper when boiling. HORSERADISH SAUCE li cup hea\y cream ^ teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons grated horse- Sprinkle cayenne or pepper radish i tablespoon vinegar Whip the cream until stiff. Gradually beat in mixture of other ingredients. Serve on baked ham. Cut steak zvith the grain on both sides of the bone, and give a strip from each side to every git est hi carving a rolled roast of beef, hold it zvith the fork and slice it evenly across the grain First cut off the legs and Zi'ings of a turkey or otJier large bird, then slice the breast downward Meat pies are cut in wedge- shaped sections. A dinner knife may be used, zvith a cold meat fork for sei-z'ing NEW DELINEATOR RECIPES 69 GIBLET GRAVY Giblets and neck of fowl 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons chicken fat Salt and pepper Place the giblets (liver, heart and gizzard) and the neck in a saucepan, and cover them with cold water. Simmer slowly and when tender remove meat from the neck, and chop fine with the giblets, saving the water in which they were cooked. Heat the fat on top of the stove and when it is hot, stir in the flour. Cook two minutes, then add one cup of the stock left from cooking the giblets, pouring it in gradually so as not to thin the gravy too much. If the gravy seems too thick, add a little hot water. Lastly, put in the chopped giblets, and season to taste with salt and pepper. DRAWN-BUTTER SAUCE % cup butter i pint boiling water 4 tablespoons flour ^4 teaspoon salt Make a roux of four tablespoons of the butter and all of the flour. Gradually add the boiling water, stirring constantly over hot water, until the sauce comes to the boiling-point. Simmer until it is thick and smooth. When ready to serve, add salt and the remaining butter in small bits, beating constantly. MAITRE D'HOTEL SAUCE 2 cups drawn-butter sauce 2 egg-yolks I tablespoon lemon-juice Salt and pepper I tablespoon chopped parsley Add the lemon-juice and chopped parsley to the drawn-butter sauce. Let it cool slightly, add the beaten yolks and season wath salt and pepper. Do not permit the sauce to boil after the addi- tion of the egg-yolk. CURRANT JELLY SAUCE I onion i stalk celery I tablespoon butter i bay-leaf I tablespoon flour 2 tablespoons vinegar y2 cup currant jelly 2 cups stock Slice the onion and cook in the butter till it begins to color, then add the flour and herbs and stir until brown. Add the vinegar 70 NEW DELINEATOR RECIPES and the stock and simmer twenty minutes. Strain, skim off al! the fat, put in the jelly and stir it until it is melted. This sauce is used with game. MUSHROOM SAUCE 4 tablespoons butter or other i cup mushrooms, fresh or fat canned 4 tablespoons flour Salt and pepper 2 cups stock Make a brown sauce of the fat, flour and stock'. Add one cup mushrooms and cook until hot. If mushrooms are not very gently treated, they will become tough. Too much cooking ruins them, three or four minutes being quite sufficient for those that have been canned and five or six for fresh ones. This sauce is used with any kind of roasted, broiled or braized meat, particularly with beef. OLIVE SAUCE 2 dozen olives 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons salad oil i pint stock I slice onion Salt and pepper I lemon Place the olives in an earthenware bowl, cover with hot water and let them remain for half an hour to draw out the brine. Place the oil in a frying-pan, and add the onion; when this commences to color, add the flour. Stir until smooth. After it has cooked for two minutes, add the stock, and place where it will simmer gently. Pare the olives round and round as though paring an apple, leaving the pulp in a single strip. If this is done carefully, the olives will retain their shape. Place the olives in the sauce, add the seasoning, the juice of the lemon and simmer for twenty minutes. Skim carefully and serve. HOLLANDAISE SAUCE ^2 cup butter i teaspoon salt Yolks of 3 eggs ^4 teaspoon pepper Juice of y2 lemon ^ cup boiling water This is one of the best sauces for fish. Beat the butter to a cream with a silver spoon, add the yolks of the eggs, one at a time, and beat well, then add the lemon-juice, salt and pepper. NEW DELINEATOR RECIPES 71 About five minutes before serving, add the boiling water, a little at a time, stirring well. Place the bowl in a saucepan of boiling water, and stir rapidly until the sauce thickens like boiled custard. TARTAR SAUCE I cup mayonnaise dressing i tablespoon chopped I teaspoon onion

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