392. Ox-tails, Sauce piquante

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849
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The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (3)
main
sauce
Instructions (5)
  1. Cook the tails as before.
  2. When done dress them upon your dish pyramidically.
  3. Make about a pint of sharp sauce, No. 135, but omitting half the quantity of vinegar, and reducing it until rather thick.
  4. Season rather highly, add three or four gherkins chopped very fine.
  5. Pour the sauce over, and serve.
Original Text
392. Ox-tails, Sauce piquante.—Cook the tails as before, and when done dress them upon your dish pyramidically, then make about a pint of sharp sauce, No. 135, but omitting half the quantity of vinegar, and reducing it until rather thick; season rather highly, add three or four gherkins chopped very fine, pour the sauce over, and serve.
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