Neapolitan sauce

From Recidemia
Jump to: navigation, search
This Cookbook page needs work. Please improve it. See the talk page for discussion regarding improvements.


Neapolitan Sauce

Ingredients

  • Onions,
  • ham,
  • butter,
  • Marsala wine,
  • blond of veal,
  • thyme,
  • bay leaf,
  • peppercorns,
  • cloves,
  • mushrooms,
  • Espagnole sauce (No. 1),
  • tomato sauce,
  • game stock or essence.

Procedure

  1. Fry an onion in butter with some bits of cut-up ham, then pour a glass of Marsala over it, and another of blond of veal, add a sprig of thyme, a bay leaf, four peppercorns, a clove, a tablespoonful of mushroom cuttings, and reduce half.
  2. In another saucepan put two cups of Espagnole sauce, one cupful of tomato sauce, and half a cup of game stock or essence.
  3. Reduce by a third, and add the contents of the first saucepan, boil the sauce a few minutes, and pass it through a sieve.
  4. Warm it up in a bain-marie before using.

This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes.