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Sauce Maltaise

From Modern culinary art (1937).

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A historical recipe

Modern culinary art, by Henri-Paul Pellaprat (1937).

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.

  • Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. 1 oz. butter

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. This is a Dutch sauce to which juice of one orange and zest of two are added, finely cut and whited two minutes in water, and dropped.
  2. Served with asparagus.
  3. Sauce Choron.
  4. — Sauce Béarnaise, completed with thick tomato mash.
  5. For a cauliflower, artichokes, fish with white sauce, we prepare a “ sauce batarde.”’ Melt in a casserole 1 oz.
  6. butter.
  7. Mix apart from fire 1 table-spoonful flour, but without cooking this roux, water with 1/2 pt.
  8. hot water (not boiling), add salt and white pepper, and also two eggyolks.
  9. Stir all very quickly on fire with the whip until first simmering.
  10. Take sauce from fire and add desired quantity of butter, from 2 ozs to 7 ozs.
  11. There is no absolute weight.
  12. Terminate with lemon juice or vinegar (do not let it boil).
  13. Caper sauce.
  14. — Dutch sauce, added with capers, or white sauce (as above) to which capers are also added.
  15. Mustard sauce.
  16. — Sauce Batarde.
  17. Addin last minute, ordinary mustard, or in powder, deluted in cold water.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Casserole pot
  • Whisk
  • Chef's knife
  • Grater
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Modern culinary art (1937), printed page 97, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/BSG_4VSUP2819

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.