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Sauce Bordelaise

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 6

Suitable for grilled butcher’s meat.

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

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • two oz. of very finely minced shallots
  • one-half pint of good red wine
  • a pinch of mignonette pepper
  • bits of thyme
  • bits of bay
  • one-half pint of half-glaze
  • two tablespoonfuls of dissolved meat glaze
  • four oz. of beef-marrow

Method

  1. Combine shallots, wine, mignonette, thyme, and bay in a pan.

  2. Reduce wine by three-quarters, then add half-glaze.

  3. Simmer for half an hour, strain, and finish with meat glaze, lemon juice, and poached beef-marrow.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SAUCE BORDELAISE Put into a vegetable-pan two oz. of very finely minced shallots, one-half pint of good red wine, a pinch of mignonette pepper, and bits of thyme and bay. MReduce the wine by three-quarters, and add one-half pint of half-glaze. Keep the sauce simmering for haif an hour; despumate it from time to time, and strain it through linen or a sieve. When dishing it up, finish it with two tablespoonfuls of dissolved meat glaze, a few drops of lemon-juice, and four oz. of beef-marrow

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