White-Wine Sauce

Preparation info
  • About

    2 cups

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
New York Times Menu Cookbook

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1966

  • About

Ingredients

  • Bones from fish
  • cup dry white wine
  • 2 cups water

Method

  1. Place the fish bones in a small saucepan and add the wine, water, garlic, parsley, onion, salt to taste and peppercorns. Bring to a boil and simmer for twenty minutes to make stock.

  2. Melt half of the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour, using a wire whisk. Add one and one-half cups of the stock, stirring vigorously until the mixture is thickened