Bordelaise Sauce

Mrs. A.B. Marshall's cookery book · A. B. Marshall · 1894
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Mrs. A.B. Marshall's cookery book
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Ingredients (13)
Instructions (4)
  1. Boil up together for fifteen to twenty minutes, keeping skimmed while boiling.
  2. Tammy the sauce.
  3. Add a little chopped tarragon and chervil, or parsley and serve.
  4. If the sauce is for serving with fish, add eight anchovies that have been boned, washed, dried and rubbed through a fine hair sieve, or a dessertspoonful of anchovy essence.
Original Text
Bordelaise Sauce.—Take half a pint of brown sauce, two wineglasses of white wine, one wineglass of claret, one finely-chopped eschalot, a pinch of mignonette pepper, one ounce of glaze or a teaspoonful of Liebig Company’s Extract of Meat, and a pinch of sugar; boil up together for fifteen to twenty minutes, keeping skimmed while boiling, then tammy and add a little chopped tarragon and chervil, or parsley and serve. If the sauce is for serving with fish, add eight anchovies that have been boned, washed, dried and rubbed through a fine hair sieve, or a dessertspoonful of anchovy essence. This is a nice sauce for grilled or broiled meat or fish.
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