Basic Brown Sauce

Name: Basic Brown Sauce
Ingredients: 1 small onion, thinly sliced; 12 black peppercorns; 2 tablespoons butter; salt; 1 stalk celery or ¼ teaspoon celery seed; 1 small turnip; 1¼ pints well-flavoured brown stock; 2 tablespoons flour; 1 small carrot; 1 bouquet garni (3 sprigs parsley, 1 sprig thyme, 1 bay leaf); 2-4 tomatoes or 1-2 tablespoons tomato concentrate; 4 mushrooms; 2 cloves

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Robert Carrier Cookbook

By Robert Carrier

Published 1965

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Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter
1 small onion, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons <

Sauce

Method

Heat butter in a thick-bottomed saucepan until it browns.

Add thinly sliced onion and simmer, stirring constantly, until golden. Stir in flour and cook, stirring constantly, for a minute or two longer.

The good colour of your sauce depends upon the thorough browning of these ingredients without allowing them to bum. When this is accomplished, remove saucepan from the heat and po