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Francese Sauce

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900).

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A historical recipe

Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen, by Janet Ross (1900).

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. one ounce of chicken jelly

Cook safely

  • 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. Stir SIX yolks of eggs, seventeen ounces of butter, salt and pepper to taste, well together.
  2. When they begin to consolidate mix in one wineglassful of puree of tomatoes passed through a fine sieve, one ounce of chicken jelly, one taWespoonfiil of chopped parsley, and one teaspoonfiil of capsicum vinegar.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Wooden spoon
  • Sieve
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900), printed page 122, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/leavesfromourtu01rossgoog

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.