Browning, for Gravies and Sauces
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Ingredients 3 ingredients
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.
Method
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- Put 2 ozs.
- lump sugar in saucepan with as much water as it will just absorb.
- Boil to a clear syrup, and then simmer very gently, stirring all the time, until it is a very dark brown, almost black.
- It must not burn or the flavour will be spoilt.
- Then add a pint of water, boil for a few minutes.
- Put into a tightly-corked bottle and use as required.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Wooden spoon