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Venetian Sauce

From The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c, 1880

Used to flavor dishes with a strong tarragon taste.

Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c (1880), page 217. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Venetian sauce. Indeed, Venetian sauce contains a very strong flavour of tarragon, and is made as follows A spoonful of tarragon leaves are cut into diamond shape and blanched green— that is, thrown into boiling water in order to preserve their colour. A bit of butter, a little nutmeg, a spoonful of tarragon vinegar, are thrown into some good strong Dutch sauce

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