15. WHITE SAUCE
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The Source Recipe
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15. WHITE SAUCE. Take white ginger which is fine and peel off the skin so that it remains white; and make of it little pieces like half a finger, and put them to soak in fine rosewater the night before; and in the morning you will take almonds well-peeled and blanched and grind them well in a mortar; and then blend them with hen's broth that is well-salted and strain it through a woolen cloth; and then put the milk in the pot where it must cook; and take whole cinnamon which is long and tie it with a thread and scald it with boiling hen's broth, with cloves of gilofre scalded in the same fashion; and when the sauce is more than half cooked, put the cinnamon and the cloves in the pot, and the ginger soaked in rosewater; and if it does not taste enough of ginger, cast in a little which is ground, because this sauce should taste of a little of ginger and of rosewater; but the rosewater should not be cast in until everything is cooked; and when the sauce is cooked, prepare dishes and put fine sugar on them.



Related Recipes
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101. THIN WHITE SAUCE. Take three pounds of almonds, and peel them and grind them well in a mortar; then blend them with broth that is very lean and without fat, which should be from hens or mutton, and strain them through a woolen cloth; and then set this milk aside and take a pot, and cast the best broth and the fattiest into it, and set it to cook; and when it boils, you should cast in an ounce of whole cinnamon or that which seems right to you, and tie it with a thread together with a small bunch of mint; and when it has boiled well, take the cinnamon and the mint out of the pot. And then cast into the pot an ounce of fine sugar and the almond milk. And boil it a little; and when it is cooked, prepare dishes; and there should be exactly four dishes of thin sauce. []

179 A white sauce. Mix a few almonds and bread crumbs together and pound them small and strain them together with vinegar through a small soup sieve. If you would have it stronger, mix wine into it. []

71. POTTAGE CALLED THIN WHITE SAUCE. You must take peeled almonds and grind them well; then blend them with orange juice or other sour stuff, or with water; and cast in enough white sugar; this sauce does not have to be strained through a woolen cloth, except that it should be well-ground, and sweet-sour. And you can put this sauce on all fowls. []

179 A white sauce. Mix a few almonds and bread crumbs together and pound them small and strain them together with vinegar through a small soup sieve. If you would have it stronger, mix wine into it. []

White sauce. Macerate bread in verjuice, with powdered white ginger. []

White Sauce. Get almonds for the amount [of sauce] you wish to make, blanch them and grind them as much as you can; get a crustless loaf of white bread soaked in verjuice and pound it with sugar and white ginger, and distemper it with verjuice or lemon juice or orange juice; make it quite white.

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Materials
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ginger
rosewater
nuts
chicken
broth
milk
cinnamon
cloves
gillyflowers
venison
sugar


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Procedure
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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