Mushroom and Madeira Sauce

Name: Mushroom and Madeira Sauce
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 onion, skinned and chopped very finely; ½ pint/285 ml Madeira; ½ lb/450 g mushrooms, wiped, de-stalked, and sliced thinly; ½ tbsp beef dripping; ½ pint/285 ml good beef stock – or, as a short cut, use good (Crosse & Blackwell) beef consommé; ½ oz/14 g flour; ½ pint/285 ml good beef stock – or, as a short cut, use good (Crosse & Blackwell) beef consommé; ½ pint/285 ml good beef stock – or, as a short cut, use good (Crosse & Blackwell) beef consommé; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ½ pint/285 ml good beef stock – or, as a short cut, use good (Crosse & Blackwell) beef consommé; Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is a good sauce to serve with a roast fillet of beef.

Ingredients

½ pint/285 ml Madeira
1 onion, skinned and chopped very finely

Sauce
Summer

Method

Put the Madeira and finely chopped onion in a saucepan and, over a moderate heat, simmer the Madeira till it has reduced down to approximately 2½ fl oz/70 ml of syrupy liquid. The onion will be soft and we