45. SAUCE FOR GEESE
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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45. SAUCE FOR GEESE. You will take peeled almonds, clean and blanched and grind them in a mortar; and after they are well-ground, take the livers of the geese or of hens which have been cooked in a pot, and grind them with the almonds; and after they are well-ground and mixed, blend it all with good hen's broth and strain it through a woolen cloth; and after it has been strained, cast it in the pot with sugar, and stir it constantly with a stick and cast all fine spices in it except saffron; and the sauce should be a little between sour and sweet; and cast sugar and cinnamon upon the dishes.
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Sauce for a gos. Take percelye, grapis, clowes of garleke, and salte, and put it in the goos, and lete roste. And whanne the goos is y-now, schake out that is with-in, and put al in a mortre, and do ther-to .iij. harde 3olkes of egges; and grynd al to-gedre, and tempre it vp with verious, and caste it upon the goos in a faire chargeour, and so serue it forth. []
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Materials
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goose
nuts
liver
chicken
broth
sugar
saffron
cinnamon
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Procedure
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Bibliography
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
<http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?libre:45>. Accessed on February 18, 2025, 4:11 am.
Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
<http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?twofi:445>. Accessed on February 18, 2025, 4:11 am.