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The Cook's Decameron / A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes

Chapter 310: No. 225. Fish Sauce
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This work opens with a prologue and a ten-day framed series of essays and anecdotes that introduce Italian culinary practices and preferences, then furnishes a large recipe section organized by sauces, soups, fish, meats, offal, and poultry. Recipes emphasize approachable Italian preparations suitable for English households, offering economical techniques for cheaper cuts and modest ingredients, with detailed sauces and regional variations. Practical notes on menu order, seasoning, and presentation accompany over two hundred tested recipes intended to broaden domestic cookery beyond French conventions.





No. 225. Fish Sauce

Add one dessert-spoonful of the sauce to a quarter pint of melted butter sauce.





No. 226. Sauce Piquante (for Meat, Fowl, Game, Rabbit, &c.)

One dessert-spoonful to a quarter pint of ordinary brown or white stock. It may be thickened by a roux made by frying two ounces of butter with two ounces of flour.





No. 227. Sauce for Venison, Hare, &c.

Two dessert-spoonsful of New Century Sauce to half a pint of game gravy or sauce, and a small teaspoonful of red currant jelly.





No. 228. Tomato Sauce Piquante

Fry three medium-sized tomatoes in one and a half ounce of butter. Pass this through a sieve, then boil it up in a bain-marie till it thickens, and add one dessertspoonful of New Century Sauce.





No. 229. Sauce for Roast Pork, Ham, &c.

Add to any ordinary white or brown sauce one dessert-spoonful of New Century Sauce and two of port or Burgundy if the sauce is brown, two of Chablis if white.





No. 230. For masking Cutlets, &c.

Making a roux by frying two ounces of butter with two ounces of flour, and add two tablespoonsful of boiling stock. Stir in one dessert-spoonful of New Century Sauce. Let it get cold, and it will then be quite firm and ready for masking cutlets, &c.