Anne Willan

Sauce Normande

Cider and Cream Sauce

Preparation info
  • Makes

    750 ml

    of sauce
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000French Regional Cooking
French Regional Cooking

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Serve this sauce with meats and with typical Norman vegetables like cauliflower, salsify, leeks, carrots and celeriac/celery root. Sauce Normande is also made to serve with fish, using the liquid (wine, cider or fish stock) in which the fish was cooked.

Ingredients

100 g butter

Method

Melt a tablespoon of the butter in a pot, add the onion and brown lightly over a low fire. Add half the remaining butter and mix well. Stir in the flour and continue to cook over a low fire, stirring, until the mixture foams. Whisk in the cider and bring to a boil. Season with salt, pepper and nutme