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Provençale Sauce

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

A historical recipe

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

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Source and licence

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.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Peel, remove the seeds, press and concass twelve medium tomatoes.
  2. Heat in a sauté-pan one-fifth pint of oil, until it begins to smoke a little;
  3. insert the tomatoes seasoned with pepper and salt;
  4. add a crushed garlic clove, a pinch of powdered sugar, one teaspoonful of chopped parsley, and allow to melt gently for half an hour.
  5. In reality, true Provençale is nothing but a fine fondue of tomatoes with garlic.