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Sauce Robert

A historical recipe from The Just-Wed Cook Book A Present from The Merchants of Reno, Nevada, by E. F. Kiessling (1917).

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A historical recipe

The Just-Wed Cook Book A Present from The Merchants of Reno, Nevada, by E. F. Kiessling (1917). Project Gutenberg eBook #51542.

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. One cup brown sauce made
  2. one teaspoonful sugar
  3. one teaspoonful mustard
  4. one tablespoonful vinegar

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. One cup brown sauce made with stock, one teaspoonful sugar, one teaspoonful mustard, one tablespoonful vinegar.
  2. Simmer five minutes.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Just-Wed Cook Book A Present from The Merchants of Reno, Nevada, by E. F. Kiessling (1917). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #51542 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51542). 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.