Piquante Sauce for the Marmite

Staple Items

• Sweet butter (10 Tb)
• All-purpose flour (½ cup)
• Tarragon white wine vinegar<

Skin and finely chop the 16 shallots and crush the 12 juniper berries in a mortar. Put both in a small saucepan with the 1½ cups tarragon vinegar and boil, uncovered, until virtually all the vinegar has evaporated, leaving just a wet mush on the bottom of the pan. In another saucepan, of about