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The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living

May 29th : SAUCE PIQUANTE

The late Michael Kelly, whose dinners and suppers were themes of admiration to those who were fortunate

enough to enjoy his friendship, made no secret of the preparation of a sauce, the result of experience. I have seen it often in MS., long before the appropriately named Doctor Kitchener wrote his “Oracle," and it is thus composed:- Put as many parsley leaves as will fill tablespoon into a mortar, add a table-spoonful of capers, and pound these well together, then a table-spoonful of fresh mustard, and three hard yolks of eggs ; pound away on these till they are properly mixed ; wash, bone, and force through a sieve half a dozen anchovies, to this add a table-spoonful of vinegar, two of oil, a shalot chopped very fine; add these to the former ingredients, and when about to be used stir them all into half a pint of melted butter, or strong beef gravy.