Matelote Sauce

Ingredients

• a pint of stock
• an onion
• a slice of carrot
• a teaspoonful of chopped parsley
• three table-spoonfuls of butter
• two of flour
• two of lemon juice
• half a teaspoonful of sugar
• a teaspoonful of salt
• a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Put sugar into a stew-pan, and as soon as it begins to smoke, add butter, then onion and carrot, cut fine.

2. 2

   Cook slowly for ten minutes; add flour, and stir until smooth.

3. 3

   Add stock, salt, and pepper, boil once, then simmer for twenty minutes.

4. 4

   Strain, add lemon juice and parsley, and boil for two minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 252. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Matelote Sauce. The materials of which this sauce is made are : a pint of stock, an onion, a slice of carrot, a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, three table-spoonfuls of butter, two of flour, two of lemon juice, half a teaspoonful of sugar, a teaspoonful of salt, and a quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper

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