Poor Man's Sauce

Ingredients

• A good-sized onion
• butter
• ½ pint common stock or water
• vinegar
• parsley
• pepper
• salt
• tablespoonful of flour

Method

1. 1

   Mince a good-sized onion, not too finely, put it into a saucepan with a piece of butter equal to it in bulk.

2. 2

   Fry till the onion assumes a light brown color, add ¾ pint common stock or water and a small quantity of vinegar, pepper and salt to taste, and some minced parsley; then stir the sauce into another saucepan, in which a tablespoonful of flour and a small piece of butter have been mixed, over the fire.

3. 3

   Let the sauce boil up, and it is ready.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Poor Man's Sauce — A good-sized onion, but- ter, }/2 pint common stock or water, vinegar, parsley, pepper and salt, flour. Mince a good-sized onion, not too finely, put it into a saucepan with a piece of butter equal to it in bulk. Fry till the onion assumes a light brown color, add 3^ pint common stock or water and a small quantity of vinegar, pepper and salt to taste, and some minced parsley; then stir the sauce into another saucepan, in which a tablespoonful of flour

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