General Sauce Recipe - Cooking Index
General Sauce Recipe - Cooking Index
General Sauce is a mild, elegant flavoring for melted butter. The original recipe called for a few somewhat rare ingredients: lemon thyme, peach leaf (easily replaced by almond extract) and long pepper, which is available at Ethiopian markets; black pepper can substitute for it. California Madeira works perfectly well in this sauce.
Courses: Sauces| 6 | Shallots - minced | |
| 1 | Garlic clove - minced | |
| 1/4 teaspoon | 1.3ml | Almond extract |
| 2 | Fresh thyme sprigs | |
| 2 | Fresh basil sprigs | |
| Grated zest of 1/4 orange | ||
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Whole cloves - crushed |
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Mace - crushed |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Freshly-ground black pepper |
| 1/4 cup | 59ml | Salt |
| 1/2 cup | 118ml | Red wine |
| Juice of 2 lemons | ||
| 2 cups | 474ml | Madeira |
Place the shallots, garlic, almond extract, thyme, basil, zest, cloves, mace, pepper, salt, wine, lemon juice and Madeira in a slow cooker. Cook at low setting 6 hours. (Or, pour the sauce into an ovenproof dish with a tight-fitting lid. Place in a 200-degree oven for 6 hours.)
Strain the sauce, discarding the solids. Store the sauce in a tightly sealed container.
This recipe yields 3 1/2 cups.
Each tablespoon: 4 calories; 253 mg sodium; 0 cholesterol; 0 fat; 0 saturated fat; 0 carbohydrate; 0 protein; 0.14 gram fiber.
Source:
The Los Angeles Times, 07-31-2002
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