I've had several readers inquire about this (well, 2...) so here it is. It is actually tastier than it appears in this photo. If you look at the photo in the Spinach Pudding post you can see it in the little jug.
Odd as it sounds, I would compare this to a vegetable gravy cross tomato sauce. But it's pretty good.
ESPAGNOLE OR SPANISH SAUCE
INGREDIENTS. -
1 quart of stock
1 oz. of raw lean ham or bacon (obviously omitted if you are vegetarian)
2 oz. of butter
2 oz. of flour
1 carrot
1 onion
1 clove
4 peppercorns
a bouquet garni (parsley, thyme, bay-leaf)
1/2 a gill of tomato pulp (I used instead some tomato paste)
1/2 a gill of sherry (optional)
2 mushrooms
METHOD. - Melt the butter in a stewpan, add the ham, cut into small pieces, fry for a few minutes, and then put in the vegetables slices, the herbs, and spices.
Stir these ingredients over a slow fire for about 5 minutes, then add the flour and brown it carefully.
Add the stock, tomato-pulp, and sherry (if used), stir the sauce until boiling, draw the saucepan to the side of the fire, let it boil slowly for about 1 hour, then skim off the fat, pass the sauce through a tammy-cloth, season, warm up, and serve quickly.
TIME. - About 1 1/2 hours. QUANTITY, about 1 pint.
I'm sure I didn't cook it for that long, and I just passed it through a sieve at the end. Pretty darn lickable though, and my sister ate some of the vegetables that were left in the strainer. She tells me they were good.
3 comments:
Sounds wonderful (and super easy). Thank you! I guess one would only throw away the vegetables to make the sauce look pretty. This sounds like it would be good served on almost anything. (Have you tried it on rice? I get so tired of plain white rice.)
Oh my. That sounded magnificent!
Of course, I consider gravy to be a beverage.
i'm personally opposed to gravy, but it seems to be growing on me
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