Sauce Cumberland ( Cumberland sauce)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1903
Ingredients
- 4 spoonfuls redcurrant jelly
- port
- 1/2 spoonful shallots
- 1 spoonful orange zest
- 1 spoonful lemon zest
- 1 orange
- 1/2 lemon
- 1 teaspoonful mustard
- cayenne
- ginger
Instructions
- Dissolve 4 tablespoons of redcurrant jelly.
- Add half a decilitre of Port, and half a spoonful of finely chopped shallots that have been blanched and pressed.
- Add a spoonful each of orange and lemon zest cut in fine julienne, well blanched, drained and cooled.
- Add the juice of an orange and of half a lemon, a teaspoon of mustard, a point of Cayenne and a point of powdered ginger.
- Mix the whole well. Serve with cold venison.