Brown Sauces

There is only one basic brown sauce – sauce espagnole - used as the base for many famous French sauces. As this sauce keeps very well, make it by the quart and store it in the refrigerator in a covered jar for future use. Sauce espagnole, or basic brown sauce, will keep indefinitely in the refrigerator if it is boiled up again once a week, and returned to the refrigerator in a clean jar.

Use sauce espagnole as a base for many exciting sauces, and as it is to lend interest to braised onions, carrots and celery, or to add to the butter in which steaks and chops have been cooked.