Brown Gravy Without Meat

Ingredients

• 2 large onions
• 1 large carrot
• 2 oz butter
• 3 pint boiling water
• 1 bunch savoury herbs
• a wineglassful of good beer
• salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

1. Slice, flour, and fry the onions and carrots in the butter until of a nice light-brown colour;
2. then add the boiling water and the remaining ingredients;
3. let the whole stew gently for about an hour;
4. then strain, and when cold, skim off all the fat.
5. Thicken it in the same manner as recipe No. 436, and, if thought necessary, add a few drops of colouring No. 108.