Cream Sauce, No. 2.
One cupful of milk, a teaspoonful of flour and a table-spoonful of b.u.t.ter, salt and pepper. Put the b.u.t.ter in a small frying-pan, and when hot, _but not brown,_ add the flour. Stir until smooth; then gradually add the milk. Let it boil up once. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and serve. This is nice to cut cold potatoes into and let them just heat through. They are then creamed potatoes. It also answers as a sauce for other vegetables, omelets, fish and sweetbreads, or, indeed, for anything that requires a white sauce. If you have plenty of cream, use it, and omit the b.u.t.ter.
Polish Sauce.
One pint of stock, two table-spoonfuls of b.u.t.ter, four of grated horseradish, one of flour, one of chopped parsley, the juice of one lemon, one teaspoonful of sugar, salt, pepper. Cook the b.u.t.ter and flour together until smooth, but not brown. Add the stock; and when it boils, add all the other ingredients except the parsley. Boil up once, and add the parsley. This sauce is for roast veal.
Robert Sauce.
Two cupfuls of stock, two small onions, four table-spoonfuls of b.u.t.ter, one heaping table-spoonful of flour, one tea-spoonful of dry mustard, one of sugar, a speck of cayenne, two table-spoonfuls of vinegar, salt. Cut the onions into dice, and put on with the b.u.t.ter.
Stir until they begin to color; then add the flour, and stir until brown. As soon as it boils, add the stock and other ingredients, and simmer five minutes. Skim, and serve.
Supreme Sauce.
Add to one pint of white sauce three finely-chopped mushrooms, the juice of half a lemon and one table-spoonful of b.u.t.ter. Simmer all together ten minutes. Rub through the strainer and use.
Olive Sauce.
Two dozen queen olives, one pint of rich stock, the juice of one lemon, two table-spoonfuls of salad oil, one of flour, salt, pepper, a small slice of onion. Let the olives stand in hot water half an hour, to extract the salt. Put the onion and oil in the stew-pan, and as soon as the onion begins to color, add the flour. Stir until smooth, and add the stock. Set back where it will simmer. Pare the olives, round and round, close to the stones, and have the pulp in a single piece. If this is done carefully with a sharp knife, in somewhat the same way that an apple skin is removed whole, the olives will still have their natural shape after the stones are taken out. Put them in the sauce, add the seasoning, and simmer twenty minutes. Skim carefully, and serve. If the sauce is liked thin, half the amount of flour given can be used. This sauce is for roast ducks and other game.
Flemish Sauce.
Cut a cupful of the red part of a carrot into _very small_ dice.
Cover with boiling water, and simmer one hour. Put three table- spoonfuls of b.u.t.ter, two of flour, a slice of carrot, an onion, cut fine; a blade of mace and twenty pepper-corns in a sauce-pan. Stir over the fire one minute, and add two cupfuls of stock. Simmer gently half an hour. Add a cupful of cream, boil up once, and strain. Now add the cooked carrot, one table-spoonful of chopped parsley, two of chopped cuc.u.mber pickles and, if you like, one of grated horseradish.
Taste to see if salt enough.
Chestnut Sauce.
One pint of sh.e.l.led chestnuts, one quart of stock, one teaspoonful of lemon juice, one table-spoonful of flour, two of b.u.t.ter, salt, pepper.
Boil the chestnuts in water for about three minutes; then plunge them into cold water, and rub off the dark skins. Put them on to cook with the stock, and boil gently until they will mash readily (it will take about an hour). Mash as fine as possible. Put the b.u.t.ter and flour in a sauce-pan and cook until a dark brown. Stir into the sauce, and cook two minutes. Add the seasoning, and rub all through a sieve. This sauce is for roast turkey. When, to be served with boiled turkey, use only a pint and a half of stock; rub the b.u.t.ter and flour together, and stir into the boiling mixture; rub through the sieve as before; add half a pint of cream to the sauce; return to the fire, boil up once, and serve. The chestnuts used are twice as large as the native fruit All first-cla.s.s provision dealers and grocers keep them.
Celery Sauce.
Cut the tender parts of a head of celery _very fine._ Pour on water enough to cover them, and no more. Cover the sauce-pan, and set where it will simmer one hour. Mix together two table-spoonfuls of flour and four of b.u.t.ter. When the celery has been boiling one hour, add to it the b.u.t.ter and flour, one pint of milk or cream, and salt and pepper. Boil up once, and serve.
Brown Mushroom Sauce.
One forty-cent can of French mushrooms, two cupfuls of stock, two table-spoonfuls of flour, four of b.u.t.ter, salt, pepper. Melt the b.u.t.ter. Add the flour, and stir until a very dark brown; then gradually add the stock. When this boils up, add the liquor from the mushrooms. Season, and simmer twenty minutes. Skim off any fat that may rise to the top. Add the mushrooms, and simmer five minutes longer. Too much cooking toughens the mushrooms. This sauce is to be served with any kind of roasted, broiled or braised meats. It is especially nice with beef.
Brown Mushroom Sauce, No, 3.
One pint of stock, two cloves, one small slice each of turnip, carrot and onion, three table-spoonfuls of b.u.t.ter, two of flour, half a can of mushrooms, or one-eighth of a pound of the fresh vegetable. Cut the vegetables in small pieces, and fry in the b.u.t.ter with the cloves until brown. Add the flour, and stir until dark brown; then gradually add the stock. Chop the mushrooms, stir into the sauce, and simmer half an hour. Rub through the sieve. Use the same as the other brown mushroom sauce.
White Mushroom Sauce.
Hake a mushroom sauce like the first, using one cupful of white stock and one cupful of cream, and cooking the b.u.t.ter only until smooth. Do not let it become browned.
Beurre Noir.
Two table-spoonfuls of b.u.t.ter, one of vinegar, one of chopped parsley, one teaspoonful of lemon juice, half a tea-spoonful of salt, one quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper. Put the b.u.t.ter in a frying-pan, and when very hot, add the parsley and then the other ingredients.
Boil up once. This sauce is for fried and broiled fish, and it is poured over the fish before sending to the table.
Maitre d" Hotel b.u.t.ter.
Four table-spoonfuls of b.u.t.ter, one of vinegar, one of lemon juice, half a teaspoonful of salt, one quarter of a teaspoonful of pepper, one teaspoonful of chopped parsley. Beat the b.u.t.ter to a cream, and gradually beat in the seasoning. This sauce is spread on fried and broiled meats and fish instead of b.u.t.ter. It is particularly nice for fish and beefsteak.
Maitre d" Hotel Sauce.
One pint of white stock, the yolks of three eggs, one heaping table- spoonful of corn-starch. Put the stock on to boil, reserving one-third of a cupful for the corn-starch. Mix the corn-starch with the cold stock and stir into the boiling. Boil gently for five minutes. Prepare the _maitre d" hotel_ b.u.t.ter as directed in the rule, and add to it the yolks of the eggs. Gradually stir into this the boiling mixture. After placing the sauce-pan in another of boiling water, stir constantly for three minutes. Take off, and serve.
Hollandaise Sauce.
Half a tea-cupful of b.u.t.ter, the juice of half a lemon, the yolks of two eggs, a speck of cayenne, half a cupful of boiling water, half a teaspoonful of salt. Beat the b.u.t.ter to a cream; then add the yolks, one by one, the lemon juice, pepper and salt. Place the bowl in which these are mixed in a sauce-pan of boiling water. Beat with an egg- beater until the sauce begins to thicken (about a minute), and add the boiling water, beating all the time. When like a soft custard it is done. The bowl, if thin, must be kept over the fire only about five minutes, provided the water boils all the time. The sauce should be poured around meat or fish when it is on the dish.
Lobster Sauce.
One small lobster, four table-spoonfuls of b.u.t.ter, two of flour, one- fifth of a teaspoonful of cayenne, two table-spoonfuls of lemon juice, one pint of boiling water. Cut the meat into dice. Pound the "coral"
with one table-spoonful of the b.u.t.ter. Rub the flour and the remainder of the b.u.t.ter to a smooth paste. Add the water, pounded "coral" and b.u.t.ter, and the seasoning. Simmer five minutes, and then strain on the lobster. Boil up once, and serve. This sauce is for all kinds of boiled fish.
b.u.t.ter Sauce.
Two table-spoonfuls of flour, half a cupful of b.u.t.ter and one pint of boiling water. Work the flour and b.u.t.ter together until light and creamy, and gradually add the boiling water. Stir constantly until it comes to a boil, but do not let it boil. Take from the fire, and serve. A table-spoonful of lemon juice and a speck of cayenne may be added if you choose. A table-spoonful of chopped parsley also gives an agreeable change.
White Oyster Sauce.
One pint of oysters, three table-spoonfuls of b.u.t.ter, one heaping table-spoonful of flour, one of lemon juice, salt, pepper, a speck of cayenne. Wash the oysters in enough water, with the addition of the oyster liquor, to make a pint. Work the b.u.t.ter and flour to a smooth paste. Let the water and oyster juice come to a boil. Skim, and pour on the flour and b.u.t.ter. Let come to a boil, and add the oysters and seasoning. Boil up once, and serve. Half a cupful of the water may be omitted and half a cupful of boiling cream added at the last moment.
Brown Oyster Sauce.
The same ingredients as for the white sauce. Put the b.u.t.ter and flour in the sauce-pan and stir until a dark brown. Add the skimmed liquor, boil up, and add the other ingredients. Boil up once more, and serve.
In the brown sauce stock can be used instead of water. The sauce is served with broiled or stewed beefsteak.