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French Olive Sauce

From The London art of cookery and domestic housekeeper's complete assistant. Uniting the principles of elegance, taste, and (1811).

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A historical recipe

The London art of cookery and domestic housekeeper's complete assistant. Uniting the principles of elegance, taste, and , by Farley, John, active 18th century. n (1811).

France

Known as a French 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 2 ingredients

  1. a gill of coulis
  2. a gill of port wine

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

  1. Stone the olives, and stew in veal stock till tender, and the liquor nearly reduced j season with cayenne, salt, and lemon juice.
  2. Sweet Sauce for Venison , Mutton, Sic.
  3. Take half a gill of coulis, two spoonsful of vinegar, a gill of port wine, an onion boiled and rubbed through a sieve, a little pounded cinnamon, and lump sugar to the palate* let the whole boil, and serve hot.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
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Credit

From The London art of cookery and domestic housekeeper's complete assistant. Uniting the principles of elegance, taste, and (1811), printed page 149, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b29351145

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.