Modern cookery for private families

it through a hair-sieve, gather it together, and mix it very smoothly with from half to three-quarters of a pint of _sauce tournée_ or of cream fish-sauce, previously well seasoned with cayenne and salt, and moderately with pounded mace; bring it to the _point_ of boiling only; stir in quickly, but gradually, a tablespoonful of strained lemon-juice, and serve it very hot. When neither cream nor gravy is at hand, substitute _rich_ melted butter mixed with a dessertspoonful or two of essence of anchovies, and well seasoned. The fine colour of the coral will be destroyed by boiling. This sauce, which the French call _Sauce à l’Aurore_, may be served with brill, boiled soles, gray mullet, and some few other kinds of fish: it is quickly made when the lobster butter of Chapter VI. is in the house. Coral of lobster, pounded; cream sauce, or _sauce tournée_ (thickened pale veal gravy), 1/2 to 3/4 pint; lemon-juice, 1 tablespoonful; salt, cayenne, and mace, as needed. Or: _rich_ melted butter, instead of other sauce; essence of anchovies, 2 dessertspoonsful; other seasoning, as above. _Obs._—The proportion of spices here must, of course, depend on the flavouring which the gravy or sauce may already have received. GENEVESE SAUCE, OR SAUCE GÉNÉVOISE. Cut into dice three ounces of the lean of a well-flavoured ham, and put them with half a small carrot, four cloves, a blade of mace, two or three very small sprigs of lemon thyme and of parsley, and rather more than an ounce of butter, into a stewpan; just simmer them from three-quarters of an hour to a whole hour, then stir in a teaspoonful of flour; continue the slow stewing for about five minutes, and pour in by degrees a pint of good boiling veal gravy, and let the sauce again simmer softly for nearly an hour. Strain it off, heat it in a clean saucepan, and when it boils, stir in a wineglassful and a half of good sherry or Madeira, two tablespoonsful of lemon-juice, some cayenne, a little salt if needed, and a small tablespoonful of flour very smoothly