Chapter III · The Small Compound Sauces · No. 46
Built upon: No. 49Ordinary Poivrade Sauce
46—Pignons Sauce
Take the necessary amount of Poivrade Sauce prepared according to Formula No. 49, Ordinary Poivrade Sauce, and let it boil. Now, for one pint of sauce, prepare an infusion of juniper berries, with one-quarter pint of water and two oz. of concassed berries; one oz. of grilled fir-apple kernels, and one oz. of raisins, stoned and washed, and left to soak in tepid water for about an hour. Finish the sauce, when dishing up, by adding the infusion of juniper berries strained through linen, the grilled kernels, the soaked raisins, and one-eighth pint of Madeira wine.
This sauce is specially suited to joints of venison.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 46, p. 29. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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