ITALIAN SAUCE (Brown)

Ingredients

• A few chopped mushrooms and shalots
• 1/2 pint stock, No. 105
• 1/2 glass Madeira
• the juice of 1/2 lemon
• 1/2 teaspoonful pounded sugar
• 1 teaspoonful chopped parsley

Instructions

1. Put the stock into a stewpan with the mushrooms, shalots, and Madeira, and stew gently for 1/4 hour, then add the remaining ingredients, and let them just boil.
2. When the sauce is done enough, put it in another stewpan, and warm it in a _bain marie_.
3. (_See_ No. 430.) The mushrooms should not be chopped long before they are wanted, as they will then become black.