A CRUET OF SAUCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 September 1925, Page 17

A CRUET OF SAUCES.

' How many of these sauces have you not tried?

Orange Sauce. —Two sticks of liorseraddisli. 1 lemon (grated), 2 oranges and 1 lemon (juice), 2oz red currant jelly, a little castor sugar, 1 tablespoonful white vinegar, mustard, and salt to taste. Melt jelly over the fire, add other ingredients, warm together, and then strain through a sieve. Maitre d’Hotel Sauce (for fisli, etc.). —Two ounces of butter, a little parsley, chopped very fine, a few drops of citron juice, pepper and salt to taste. Knead these well together into one lump, put in a sauce-boat and stand, in a cold place till wanted. Sauce Maltaise (for. cold beef). — About a third of a pint of red currant jelly, the grated rind and the juice of two oranges,' a teaspoonful of English mustard, and a pinch of salt. Mix well together. Sauce Mayonnaise. —Take a roundbottomed basin in which you have placed 3 yokes of eggs. Stir these briskly with a wooden spoon, adding a pinch of dry mustard and. one of salt. When the mixture has stiffened into a paste take half a gill of tarragon vinegar and a wine-glassful of the freshest oil and stir these in, a few drops at a time, pressing the paste, against the side, of the bowl. When all the oil has been worked into tlie sauce, drop by drop, then add two or three drops of water, which prevents t 1 sauce from curdling. The success, of this sauce depends upon the oil being incorporated drop by drop. Liver, Sauce (for roast- hare).—Boil the liver and chop it very fine. Then add ioz of butter, loz flour, half a pint cream; mix well together, warm through and. pour it over the hare just before serving. Parslev Sauce (for boiled mutton, etc.). —One ounce butter, chopped parsley, 1 tablespoon flour, salt, 1 breakfast cup milk (half milk and ha water may be used). Mix flour quite smooth with a iittie eoM water o milk Warm milk and butter m pot, sth- in flour, add salt or five minutes, stirring all the time. Add chopped parsley and allow to sim mer gently for some minutes..