Sweet-Bread (Brown Sauce)

Ingredients

• One sweet-bread
• one half teaspoonful Liebig's extract of beef
• one gill cold water
• one pinch pepper
• one pinch salt
• one half teaspoonful arrowroot

Method

1. 1

   Soak the sweet-bread in a basin of cold water for an hour; take it from the water, place it in a small sauce-pan of cold water, and boil it for half an hour.

2. 2

   Pour away the water and put the sweet-bread in a basin of cold water; wash it well, trim the fat from it, and cut it in pieces.

3. 3

   Place the arrowroot in a basin, moisten it with a very little cold water, and when quite smooth add the remainder of the water.

4. 4

   Pour this into a fresh sauce-pan, and stir it over the fire till boiling; add the Liebig extract, and then the pieces of sweet-bread.

5. 5

   Simmer all slowly for ten minutes, and serve at once on a hot dish.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 187. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet -Bread (Brown Sauce). — One sweet-bread, one half tea-spoonful Liebig's extract of beef, one gill cold water, one pinch pepper, one pinch salt, one half tea-spoonful arrowroo

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