BROWN SAUCE
One tablespoon of butter in a sauce pan until it is a dark brown, add 1 tablespoon of flour and mix well 1-2 pint of stock and stir constantly until it boils; add 1-2 teaspoonful salt, 1-2 saltspoonful of pepper, 1-2 teaspoonful onion juice and it is ready to use.
TOMATO SAUCE
One tablespoonful butter
1-2 tablespoonful flour
1 tablespoonful onion
1 1-2 cups tomato
1-2 teaspoon salt
Melt butter in sauce pan, add onion finely chopped, stirring constantly. Put in flour, cooking until thickened, then pour in the cooked tomato with pepper and salt added. Strain.
CREAM SAUCE
Melt---not boil---1 large tablespoonful of butter; add two barely rounded tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until smooth; add a pint of cold cream and bring to a boil, stirring constantly that the sauce may be perfectly smooth. Season with salt and red pepper.
SAUCE FOR VEAL BOUDINS
One tablespoon of flour and the same of butter rubbed together. Cook with 1/2 cup of stock, 1/2 cup cream and yolk of egg beaten. Season with 1 teaspoon of chopped parsley, pepper and salt.
Salmon With Sauce, Hollandaise
Cover a can of salmon with boiling water and let simmer over slow fire 20 minutes.
Hollandaise Sauce:
2 rounding tablespoonfuls of butter
1 rounding tablespoonful flour
1 cup boiling water
1/2 lemon, the juice only
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1 yolk of egg
pinch of cayenne
Method: Cream butter and flour; pour over the sauce the cup of boiling water; stir until thick; add lemon juice, salt, pepper and yolk of egg. Turn salmon on platter; pour sauce around and serve.
Sauce Tartare
One cup mayonnaise dressing, 1 tablespoonful each of capers, olives, green cucumber pickles and parsley, chopped fine. Press in cloth until dry. Blend with mayonnaise. Very nice with fish.
Oyster Sauce
One peck ripe tomatoes
12 large onions
8 large red peppers
Boil tomatoes and onions, first rubbed through a sieve, then add 2 cups sugar, 2 cups vinegar, 1 tablespoonful mustard, 1/2 cup salt; add peppers, chopped fine. Cook until thick. Bottle and seal.
Drawn Butter Sauce for Salmon or Fish
One-third cup butter
3 level tablespoonfuls flour
1 1/2 cups hot water
1/2 teaspoonful salt
pepper
1 teaspoonful of lemon juice.
Method: Melt 1/2 of butter, add flour; pour hot water on gradually; boil five minutes; add remaining butter. Last add beaten yolks of 2 eggs and teaspoonful of lemon juice.
MARCHAND DU VIN
2 Tbsp. finely chopped onion
5 oz Red Wine
4 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. chopped parsley
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
Simmer wine until reduced to 1/4. Cool and add melted butter stirring constantly. Add other ingredients. Excellent for steaks, hamburgs or cold sliced roasts.
Chilli Sauce For Meats
Eighteen ripe tomatoes, two onions, two green peppers, two teaspoons of salt, one teacup of sugar, two and a half cups of vinegar, one teaspoon each of cloves and cinnamon, chop and mix. Boil slowly and keep in glass cans.