Collectors' Items: Fifty Superb Recipes from Spice Islands

by Spice Islands Company

2 tablespoons SPICE ISLANDS Beef Stock Base

2 cups hot water

⅛ teaspoon SPICE ISLANDS Fine Grind Java Black Pepper

Melt butter; stir in Arrowroot. Add Beef Stock Base to water and stir into butter and Arrowroot. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth. Add Pepper. Serve hot as a gravy, or use as a basis of other sauces.

Onion Gravy or Sauce (6 Servings)

A good sauce to serve with broiled hamburgers or liver; delicious, too, on leftover pot roast or other cold meat.

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons SPICE ISLANDS Instant Minced Onions soaked in 2 tablespoons water

4 teaspoons SPICE ISLANDS Arrowroot

2 tablespoons SPICE ISLANDS Beef Stock Base