[39—GRAND-VENEUR SAUCE]
Take one pint of Poivrade Sauce (No. [49]) and boil it, adding one pint of game stock to keep it light; reduce the sauce by a good third; remove it from the fire, and add four tablespoonfuls of red-currant jelly. When the latter is well dissolved, complete the sauce by one-quarter pint of cream per pint of sauce.
This sauce is the proper accompaniment for joints of venison.
[40—ITALIAN SAUCE]
Ordinary Italian Sauce.—Put into a stewpan six tablespoonfuls of Duxelles (see No. [223]), two oz. of very lean, cooked ham, cut very finely, [brunoise-fashion], and one pint of half-glaze tomatée. Boil for ten minutes, and complete, at the moment of dishing up, with one teaspoonful of parsley, chervil, and tarragon, minced and mixed.
Lenten Italian Sauce.—Same preparation, only (1) omit the Ham, and (2) substitute Lent Espagnole (combined with fish [fumet] made from the fish for which the sauce is intended) for half glaze with tomatoes.
[41—THICKENED GRAVY]
Boil one pint of poultry or veal stock (according to the nature of the dish the gravy is intended for). Thicken this sauce by means of three-quarters oz. of fecula, diluted cold, with a little water or gravy, and pour this leason into the boiling gravy, being careful to stir briskly.
The thickened gravy with the veal-stock base is used for choicest pieces of butcher’s meat; that with a poultry-stock base is for fillets of poultry.