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Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide

1880

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Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
228 MISS PARLOA'S NEW COOK BOOK. Shrimp Sauce. Make a butter sauce, and add to it two table-spoonfuls of essence of anchovy and half a pint of canned shrimp. Stir well, and it is ready to serve. Anchovy Sauce. Make the butter sauce, and stir into it four table- spoonfuls of essence of anchovy and one of lemon juice. "Egg Sauce. Six hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine with a silver knife or spoon ; half a cupful of boiling cream or milk, and the butter sauce. Make the sauce, add the boiling cream or milk, and then the eggs. Stir well, and serve. Fine Herbs Sauce. One table-spoonful of chopped onion, two of chopped mushroom, one of chopped parsley, two of butter, salt, pep- per, one pint of white sauce, No. 3. Pat the butter and chopped ingredients in a sauce-pan and stir for one minute over the fire. Add the sauce, and boil up once. Caper Sauce. Make a butter sauce, and stir into it one table-spoonful of lemon juice, two of capers, and one of essence of anchovy. Mustard Sauce. Stir three table-spoonfuls of mixed mustard and a speck of cayenneBrown Oyster Sauce into a butter sauce. This is nice for devilled turkey and broiled smoked herrings. Curry Sauce. One table-spoonful of butter, one ^f flour, one teaspoon- ful of curry powder, one large slice of onion, one large cup- ful of stock, salt and pepperCurry Sauce to taste. Cut the onion fine, and fry brown in the butter. Add the flour and curry pow- MEAT AND FISH SAUCES. 229 der. Stir for one minute,- add the stock, and season with the salt and pepper. Simmer five minutes ; then strain, and serve. This sauce can be served with a broil or saute of meat or fish. Vinaigrette Sauce. One teaspoonful of white pepper, one of salt, half a tea- spoonful of mustard, half a cupful of vinegar, one table- spoonful of oiVinaigrette Saucel. Mix the salt, pepper and mustard together \ then very slowly add the vinegar, and after mixing well, add the oil. The sauce is to be eaten on cold meats or on fish. Piquant Sauce. Two cupfuls of brown sauce, one of consomme^ (common stock will do), four table -spoonfuls of vinegar, two of chopped onion, two of chopped capers, two of chopped cu- cumber pickles, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of cayenne, one teaspoonful of sugar, salt to tastePiquant Sauce. Cook the onion and vine- gar in a sauce-pan for three minutes ; then add the sauce, consomme^ sugar, salt and pepper. Boil rapidly for five minutes, stirring all the while. Add the capers and pickles, and boil three minutes longer. Tomato Sauce. One quart of canned tomatoes, two table-spoonfuls of butter, two of flour, eight cloves and a small slice of onionTomato Sauce. Cook the tomato, onion and cloves ten minutes. Heat the butter in a small frying-pan, and add the flour. Stir over the fire until smooth and brown, and then stir into the tomatoes. Cook two minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and rub through a strainer fine enough to keep back the seeds. This sauce is nice for fish, meat and macaroni. 230 MISS PARLOA'S JSTEW COOK BOOK.