Sauce Moscovite (Peppery Venison Sauce with Malaga and Juniper)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 3 quarters of a litre Sauce Poivrade made with venison fumet
- 1 décilitre Malaga wine
- 7 centilitres infusion of juniper berries
- 40 grammes pine nuts
- 40 grammes currants
Instructions
- Have three quarters of a litre of Sauce Poivrade made with venison fumet ready.
- Pick over the currants and swell them in warm water.
- Grill the pine nuts, or the slivered almonds if pine nuts are not to hand.
- At the last moment, complete the sauce with the Malaga wine, the juniper berry infusion, the grilled nuts and the currants.
- Serve with cuts of venison.