Cookbook:Tomato Sauce Piquante

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Tomato Sauce Piquante
Category	Italian recipes
Servings	2
Time	30 minutes
Difficulty

Ingredients

• 1 ounce ham
• Butter
• ½ onion
• ½ carrot
• ½ stalk celery
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 sprig thyme
• 1 clove
• 4 peppercorns
• ⅓ cup vinegar
• ½ glass Chablis white wine
• 1 cup stock
• 6 tomatoes
• Veloute or Espagnole sauce
• 1 tsp castor sugar
• Juice of ½ lemon

Procedure

1. Cut up the ham, onion, carrot, and celery very finely.
2. Fry them in butter together with the bay leaf, thyme, clove and peppercorns.
3. Over this pour the vinegar, and when the liquid is all absorbed, add the Chablis and stock.
4. Then the tomatoes, cut up and strained of all their liquid.
5. Cook this in a covered stew pan and pass it through a sieve, but see that none of the bay leaf or thyme goes through.
6. Mix this sauce with an equal quantity of Veloute sauce (No. 2) or Espagnole sauce, (No. 1), let it boil and pass through a sieve again and at the last add the castor sugar, the juice of half a lemon, and an ounce of fresh butter.

Notes, tips, and variations

• Another tomato sauce may be made like this, using stock instead of vinegar and leaving out the lemon juice and sugar.

Reference

This page incorporates text from the public domain cookbook The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes by Emily Waters.