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Brown Chaudfroid Sauce

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Wine
  2. One pint of Espagnole sauce
  3. Eight tablespoonfuls of warmed aspic jelly
  4. Four tablespoonfuls of sherry
  5. Two tablespoonfuls of cream

Method

  1. One pint of Espagnole sauce.
  2. Four sheets of French gelatine.
  3. Four tablespoonfuls of sherry.
  4. Two tablespoonfuls of cream.
  5. Eight tablespoonfuls of warmed aspic jelly.
  6. Method — Bo\ the Espagnole sauce.
  7. Dissolve the gelatine in it, add the aspic, the wine, and let it stand by the side of the fire for five minutes.
  8. Skim it well and strain it through a tammy cloth or fine sieve.
  9. Add the cream, season it carefully, bearing in mind that foods to be eaten cold require to be slightly more highly seasoned than hot foods.
  10. This sauce is now ready to use as required.
  11. Note.
  12. — The plain brown sauce could be used instead of Espagnole and the cream left out.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The complete cook (1908), printed page 291, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21538244

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.