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Sauce, Green (for Green Geese or Ducklings)

INGREDIENTS. pint of sorrel-juice, 1 glass of sherry, 1/2 pint of green gooseberries, 1 teaspoonful of pounded sugar, 2 oz. of fresh butter.

Boil the gooseberries in water until they are qnite tender; mash them and press them through a sieve; put the pulp into a saucepan with the above ingredients; simmer for 3 or 4 minutes, and serve very hot.

TIME.-3 or 4 minutes.

Sauce Piquante (for Cutlets, Roast Meat, &c.). - INGREDIENTS for sauce for dish for 4 or 5 persons. -2 oz. of butter, 1 small carrot, 6 shalots, 1 small bunch of savoury herbs, including parsley, 1/2 bayleaf, 2 slices of lean ham, 2 cloves, 6 peppercorns, 1 blade of mace, 3 whole allspice, 4 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, 1/2 pint of stock, 1 small lump of sugar, 1/4 saltspoonful of cayenne, salt to taste. AVERAGE COST, 18.

Put into a stewpan the butter, with the carrots and shalots, both of which must be cut into small slices; add the herbs, bayleaf, spices and ham (which must be minced rather finely), and let these ingredients simmer over a slow fire until the bottom of the stewpan is covered with a brown glaze.

Keep stirring with a wooden spoon, and put in the remaining ingredients. Simmer very gently for 1/4 hour, skim off every particle of fat, strain the sauce through a sieve, and serve very hot. Care must be taken that this sauce be not made too acid, although it should possess a sharpness indicated by its name. Of course the above quantity of vinegar may be increased or diminished at pleasure, according to taste.

TIME.-Altogether, hour.

SEASONABLE at any time.