Sauce, Robart, for Rumps or Steaks

Ingredients

• a piece of butter, the size of an egg
• a handful of sliced onions
• half a spoonful of flour
• four spoonfuls of gravy
• some pepper
• some salt
• a teaspoonful of made mustard
• a spoonful of vinegar
• juice of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter in a saucepan, add sliced onions and fry until brown.

2. 2

   Add flour, shake, and fry again.

3. 3

   Stir in gravy, pepper, and salt, and boil gently for 10 minutes.

4. 4

   Skim off fat, then add mustard, vinegar, and lemon juice.

5. 5

   Serve around steaks.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 438. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SAUCE, Robart, for Rumps or Steaks. — Put a piece of butter, the size of an egg, into a saucepan, set It over the fire, and when browning throw in a handful of sliced onions, cut small ; fry them brown, but don't let them burn ; add half a spoonful of flour, shake the onions in it, and give it another fry : then put four spoonfuls of gravy, and some pepper and salt, and boil it gently ten minutes ; slum off the fat ; add a teaspoonful of made mustard, a spoonful of vinegar, and juice of half a lemon ; boil it all, and pour it round the steaks. They should be of a fine yellow brown, and gar- nished with fried parsley and lemon. SAUCE, for any kind of Fish. — Take a little of the water that drains from the fish ; add an equal quantity of veal gravy ; boil them together, and put it into a saucepan, with an onion, an anchovy, a spoonful of ketchup, and a glass of sherry ; thicken with butter rolled in flour, and a spoonful of cream. SAUCE, for Carp or boiled Turkey. — Rub lb. of butter with a teaspoonful of flour, put to it a little water, melt it, and add near a quarter of a pint of thick cream, and half an anchovy chopped fine, not washed ; set it over the fire, and as it boils up, add a large spoonful of real India soy. If that does not give it a fine colour, add a little more. Turn it into the sauce- tureen, and put some salt

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