Curry Sauce

Ingredients

• one tablespoon of butter
• one tablespoon of flour
• one teaspoon of curry powder
• one slice of onion
• one large cup of stock
• salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. 1

   Fry onion in butter until brown.

2. 2

   Add flour and curry powder, stir for 1 minute, then add stock and season.

3. 3

   Simmer for 5 minutes, then strain and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home dissertations (1891) by Tilton, E. Stevens Mrs., page 110. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CURRY SAUCE. One tablespoon of butter, one of flour, one teaspoon of curry powder, one slice of onion, one large cup of stock, salt and pepper to taste. Cut the onion fine, and fry brown in butter. Add the flour and curry powder. Stir for one minute, add the stock, and season with the salt and pepper. Simmer five minutes ; then strain and serve. This sauce can be served with a broil or saute" of meat or fish. CELERY SAUCE. Wash and cut into inch pieces a fresh young head of celery, and boil it till tender in veal stock or in milk and water. Season this with white pepper, nutmeg and salt, and thicken it with a mixture of butter and flour. Another simple celery sauce consists of drawn butter, made with a decoction of celery seeds, and seasoned as above. CAPER SAUCE. Caper sauce is made by mixing a gill of capers, with some of their pickle-vinegar, into the drawn butter prepared as follows : DRAWN BUTTER. ' ' When I made my first attempts at becoming a cook it seemed as if every recipe for certain dishes ended with these words, ' Serve with drawn-butter sauce. ' How to make it I did not know, and I dared not ask. I felt that if I did, every older housewife would regard me as we used to the dull boy in school who begged us to tell him how many eighths there were in a whole, and how we knew. ' Intuitive knowledge ' of anything pertaining to keeping house was denied me, but after many experiments rules were evolved, and have never failed to give satisfaction." Take two large tablespoons of butter and one tablespoon of flour

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