Sauce Robert
Origin: London, England
Source: Eliza Acton, 1845
Ingredients
- 4 large onions
- 3 oz. butter
- 1 dessertspoonful flour
- 1/2 pint beef or veal gravy
- 1 dessertspoonful made mustard
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Cut four or five large onions into small dice.
- Brown them in a stewpan with three ounces of butter and a dessertspoonful of flour until they reach a deep yellow-brown colour, about 10 to 15 minutes.
- Pour half a pint of beef or veal gravy to the onions and let them simmer for 15 minutes.
- Skim the sauce and add a seasoning of salt and pepper.
- At the moment of serving, mix a dessertspoonful of made mustard into the sauce.