Piquante Sauce

Ingredients

• Half an ounce dripping
• Half an ounce flour
• Half a pint stock
• One dessertspoonful ketchup
• One tablespoonful vinegar
• Pepper and salt
• One onion
• One small piece of carrot

Method

1. 1

   Melt the dripping, fry the vegetables slightly, add the flour, and brown carefully; then add the vinegar, and reduce for four or five minutes.

2. 2

   Add the stock by degrees and a pinch of salt.

3. 3

   Boil up, skim thoroughly, and add the ketchup.

4. 4

   Simmer steadily for thirty to forty minutes, stirring and skimming when necessary.

5. 5

   Strain, and reheat.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plain cookery recipes (1908) by Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

on. Small piece of carrot. One ounce bacon. Four or five tomatoes. Pepper and salt. Prepare onion and carrot, and cut into slices. Put butter and bacon into a saucepan, and fry slightly. Add onion and carrot, then the tomatoes ; bruise down with a spoon, and reduce the sauce for four or five minutes. This improves the flavour and colour. Stir in the rice flour, add the stock. Boil up, and skim if necessary. Season with salt and pepper. PLAIN COOKERY RECIPES. 68 Put on the lid and simmer slowly for forty to forty-five minutes, stirring occasionally. Rub through a hair sieve, and reheat. Brown Sauce. Half an ounce dripping. Half an ounce flour. Half-pint second stock. One onion. Small piece of carrot. One dessertspoonful ketchup. Pepper and salt. Prepare carrot and onion, dry well, and cut in thin slices. Melt the dripping, fry the vegetables slightly, add the flour, and stir carefully over a slow fire till of a good brown colour. Add stock by degrees, also a pinch of salt. Boil up, and skim thoroughly. Put on the lid, and simmer the sauce steadily for thirty to forty minutes, stirring and skimming when necessary. Strain, and reheat. Piquante Sauce. Half an ounce dripping. Half an ounce flour. Half a pint stock. One dessertspoonful ketchup. One tablespoonful vinegar. Pepper and salt. One onion

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