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Mayonnaise Sauce,
Green.—Make some mayonnaise
sauce as above, and colour it with some spinach
colouring (vegetable colouring, sold in bottles by all
grocers).
Mint Sauce.—Take plenty
of fresh mint leaves, as the secret of good mint sauce is to
have plenty of mint. Chop up sufficient mint to fill a
teacup, put this at the bottom of a sauce tureen, pour
sufficient boiling water on the mint to thoroughly moisten
it, and add a tablespoonful of brown sugar, which dissolves
best when the water is hot. Press the mint with a tablespoon
to extract the flavour, let it stand till it is quite cold,
and then add three or four tablespoonfuls of malt vinegar,
stir it up, and the sauce is ready. The quantity of vinegar
added is purely a matter of taste, but a teaspoonful of
chopped mint floating in half a pint of vinegar is no more
mint sauce than dipping a mutton chop in a quart of boiling
water would be soup in ordinary cookery.
Mushroom Sauce,
White.—Mushroom sauce can be made from fresh
mushrooms or tinned mushrooms. When made from fresh they
must be small button mushrooms, and not those that are black
underneath. They must be peeled, cut small, and have a
little lemon juice squeezed over them to prevent them
turning colour, or they had still better be thrown into
lemon juice and water. They must now be fried in a
frying-pan with a small quantity of butter till they are
tender, and then added to a little thickened milk, or still
better, cream. When made from tinned mushrooms, simply chop
up the mushrooms, reserving the liquor, then add a little
cream and thicken with a little white
roux. A little pepper and salt should be added in both
cases. Instead of using either milk or cream, you can use a
small quantity of sauce
Allemande.
Mushroom Sauce,
Brown.—Proceed exactly as above with regard to the
mushrooms, both fresh and tinned, only instead of adding
milk, cream, or Allemande
sauce, add a little stock or water, and then thicken the
sauce with a little brown
roux.
Mushroom Sauce,
Purée.—Mushroom sauce, both white and brown, is
sometimes served as a purée. It is simply either of the
above sauces rubbed through a wire sieve.
Mustard Sauce.—Make,
say, half a pint of good butter
sauce, add to this a tablespoonful of French mustard and
a tablespoonful of made English mustard. Stir this into the
sauce, make it hot, and serve.
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