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Brown Sauce

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a pound of butter
  2. Stock
Contains Milk Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Put a quarter of a pound of butter and eight ounces of (lour in a saucepan, and set it ou a slow fire;
  2. keep stirring A.
  3. SEMES OP SAUCES.
  4. tor ten minutes, or till liglit brown, then tako it ofF and let it get nearly cold, then pour over sufficient brown stock, No.
  5. 2, to mako it a nice thickness, or like thinnish melted butter ;
  6. then boil for half an hour, skim, strain it into a basin, and use where and when required.
  7. If you have this sauce by you, use it instead of melted butter for brown sauces.
  8. To make it darker, a little colouring may be added.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon
  • Sieve