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Presented as published in 1882. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Weigh 2 ozs. each of butter and flour (which has been dried, but not browned), and stir the flour and half the butter in a saucepan in the bain-marie, or a milk saucepan, for about three minutes ; then pour in slowly the requisite quantity of stock or broth to dilute the sauce ; let it stand off the fire for two minutes, and then mix in the yolks of two eggsSauce a la Poulette which have been stirred, but not beaten. Just replace in the bain-marie, and at the last moment stir in the rest of the butter. This sauce is appropriate to dressed carrots (Dutch-horn), to lambs' feet or tails, to dressed fish, &c. A little chopped parsley or shallot may be put in this sauce if more flavour is desired. A very little pepper and salt, if the broth added does not contain those flavours. Sauce a la d'Uxelles. Chop up button mushrooms, shallots, chibbals, parsley, and bacon, fry in butter, but do not let them brown. Season with pepper and salt and a bay leaf ; add some pale sauce and simmer ; squeeze in a little lemon-juice, and, as a last thing, stir in one Qgg or more, according to quantity. Pour into a basin to cool, and use as coating to any dish of which the meat has to be wrapped in paper, or to be placed on silver skewers and fried in breadcrumbs. The entree is then described as a la cfUxelles. SA UCES. 277 Sauce cl la Ste.-lVLenehould. Put some butter cut into little bits, so that it melts quickly, into a milk saucepan, and dredge in some dried flour. Dilute this with new milk, or milk and cream. Season with mushrooms, chibbals, pepper and salt ; stir and simmer ; pass it through a tamis ; put it again into the saucepan with either chopped parsley, or, if for pigs' feet, with chopped sage. Sauce Perigueux. This sauce can be made with ' Pelures de truffes,' which are much cheaper than truffles. Take them out of the tin ; stir them into some rich stock, and simmer in a stewpan with a wine-glass of sherry or Chablis. The simmering must be carried on till the raw taste of the truffles disappears. The sauce keeps two or three days, and can easily be warmed. Remoulade Sauce {hot). Take mushrooms and chibbals cut to the same size, chopped parsley and a touch of garlic, best ob- tained by cutting up the chibbals with a knife rubbed with garlic. Fry in salad oil ; then simmer in broth with enough Maille vinegar to give sharpness, but not to dominate the mushroom flavour. Before serving introduce a teaspoonful of mustard flourMushroom and Chibbals let it warm and mingle, but not boil. 278 SA UCES. R^moulade Sauce {cold), Chibbals, capers, anchovies {i.e. anchovies preserved in oil), are to be chopped up with parsley, mustard, pepper and salt. Mix with salad oil, and lastly a teaspoonful or more of Maille vinegarR^moulade Sauce. Take care that neither flavour is in excess. If garlic is liked, the taste may be given as in the preceding sauce. Czarina Sauce. Have a very rich brown sauce, and to this add sultana raisins, gherkins cut to the size of the raisins, and lemon-peel which has been parboiled and also cut to the same size. Season with black pepper, and simmer, stirring in at the last moment enough butterCzarina Sauce to give softness to the other ingredients. Fair Maid's Sauce. Fair Maid's Sauce