Piquante Sauce

Ingredients

• a quarter of a pint of good melted butter
• half a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce
• a tablespoonful of vinegar
• a dessert-spoonful of very finely chopped pickled gherkins
• the same of chopped capers
• a shallot finely chopped, if liked

Method

1. 1

   Boil together all ingredients, skim, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 141. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

piquante sauce. For this it must be prepared over-night. Trim away the skin and fat, and score the meat deeply at half-inch distances. Supposing there is about a pound and a half of meat on the bone, make a hot mixture by working together with the point of a knife a slice of butter, two tea-spoonfuls of mixed mustard, a tea-spoonful cf salt, and a salt-spoonful of cayenne. Pub this mixture into the scores. To-morrow all that will be necessary will be to lay the meat on a grid¬ iron at a good height over a clear fire, and turn it frequently till it is hot through and a light brown colour. It will take about a quarter of an hour. May 5th. Breakfast. Luncheon. Dinner. Toasted Bacon. Pressed Beef. Badislies. Hot Buttered Toast. Dry Toast. Brown and White Bread and Butter. Gooseberry Fool. Stewed Cheese. Jam Turnover®. Milk Soirp. Grilled Shoulder of Lamb. Piquante Sauce. Veal Eolls. Spinach. New Potatoes, Guests’ Pudding. Cheese. Marketing. For tlie Day.— One pound and a half of lean Veal, from the fillet or loin. If there is no lamb left, more veal than this will be needed (February 25th). Spinach : New Potatoes ; Broccoli ; a quarter of a pound of Ratafias. For To-morrow.— Half a pound of Forced Mushrooms. Beeakfast. --Toasted Bacon (January 19th) : Beef boiled May 1st: Gooseberry Fool (June 24th). Luncheon. — Steived Cheese. — Cut a quarter of a pound of cheese into thin slices, and put it into a stewpan with as much ale as will barely cover it. Keep stirring it till it melts, then let it cool a minute, anti stir in a spoonful of mustard and the yolk of one egg well beaten. Stir over the lire again for half a minute, pour the preparation upon a dish, stick three-cornered sippets of toast in the middle, and all round, and serve very hot. Jam Turnovers (September 25th). Dinnee. Milk Soup (January 3rd); Grilled Shoulder of Lamb jl YEARS COOKERY. 177 (Note, May 4th). Piquante Sauce. — Make a quarter of a pint of good melted butter. Stir in half a tea-spoonful of anchovy sauce, and add a table-spoonful of vinegar, a dessert-spoonful of very finely chopped pickled gherkins, and the same of chopped capers, with a shallot finely chopped, if liked

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.