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Piquant Sauce

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United States

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

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. Salt
  2. Cucumber pickles
  3. a teaspoonful of sugar
  4. Vinegar
  5. Stock
  6. two tablespoonfuls of onion
  7. two tablespoonfuls of chopped capers

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.
  • 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. Cook two tablespoonfuls of onion in four of vinegar for three minutes, then add a large cupful of stock, a teaspoonful of sugar, one-fourth that quantity of cayenne and salt to taste.
  2. Boil for five minutes, put in two tablespoonfuls of chopped capers and same of chopped cucumber pickles.
  3. Boil up and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From The Chicago Record cook book (1896), printed page 23, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/chicagorecordcoo00ches

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.