Sauce Victoria (Port and Redcurrant Sauce for Venison)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 3 spoonfuls redcurrant jelly
- 3 cloves
- 8 grains coarse pepper
- a small fragment of cinnamon
- 1 orange zest
- 1 décilitre and a half Port wine
- 2 décilitres and a half sauce Espagnole
- juice of 1 fine orange
- a point of Cayenne
Instructions
- Gather in a sauté pan the redcurrant jelly, the cloves, the coarse pepper, the fragment of cinnamon, the orange zest, the Port wine and the sauce Espagnole.
- Reduce by a third over a brisk fire, stirring with the spatula.
- Pass through the tammy.
- Finish with the juice of the orange and a point of Cayenne.