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French Sauce d la Tartare

From The cook and housewife's manual, containing the most approved modern receipts for making soups, gravies, sauces, ragouts (1827).

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A historical recipe

The cook and housewife's manual, containing the most approved modern receipts for making soups, gravies, sauces, ragouts, by Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857. n (1827).

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 1 ingredient

  1. a glass of vinegar

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. Mix a minced shalot and a few leaves of chervil and tarragon finely minced with a tea-spoonful of made-mustard, a glass of vinegar, and a sprinkling of oil.
  2. Stir this constantly, and, if necessary, thin it with vinegar.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The cook and housewife's manual, containing the most approved modern receipts for making soups, gravies, sauces, ragouts (1827), printed page 328, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b22021504

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.