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Nantua Sauce

A historical recipe from A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907).

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A historical recipe

A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #71395.

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

France

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. one pint of Béchamel Sauce
  2. one-half pint of cream
  3. three oz. of very fine crayfish butter
  4. one tablespoonful of small

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. Boil one pint of Béchamel Sauce, add one-half pint of cream, and reduce by a third.
  2. Rub it through a tammy, and finish it with a further addition of two tablespoonfuls of cream, three oz.
  3. of very fine crayfish butter, and one tablespoonful of small, shelled crayfishes’ tails.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From A guide to modern cookery, by Escoffier, A. (Auguste) (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #71395 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71395). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.