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Nantua Sauce

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 2

Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

NANTUA SAUCE Boil one pint of Béchamel Sauce, add one-half pint of cream, and reduce by a third. Rub it through a tammy, and finish it with a further addition of two tablespoonfuls of cream, three oz. of very fine crayfish butter, and one tablespoonful of small, shelled crayfishes’ tails

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