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Sauce for Canvas-back Duck

From Joe Tilden's recipes for epicures (1907).

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A historical recipe

Joe Tilden's recipes for epicures, by Joe Tilden and Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress) DLC (1907).

United States

Known as an American 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. one ounce of butter
  2. a glass of sherry

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • 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. Melt together in a hot soup plate one ounce of butter, and an equal amount of currant jelly.
  2. Add the jtiice of a lime, a glass of sherry and a small cupfid of finely chopped celery.
  3. Season with salt, pepper and cayenne.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From Joe Tilden's recipes for epicures (1907), printed page 80, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/joetildensrecip00tildgoog

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.