Sauce Matelote blanche (White Matelote Sauce)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Add 25 grammes of mushroom peelings to 3 décilitres of white-wine fish court-bouillon and reduce by two thirds.
  2. Add 8 décilitres of Velouté de poisson and let it boil (the printed number of minutes is illegible in the source).
  3. Finish with 150 grammes of butter and sharpen with a point of cayenne.
  4. Pass through the étamine.
  5. Add the garnish: 20 small onions glazed in butter and 20 small mushroom caps, cooked and very white.

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