Queen’s Sauce (Hartshorne)

Queen’s Sauce is a thick, creamy sauce for heart meals. This recipe is an interpreted method from the original recipe in Henry Hartshorne’s the Household Cyclopedia.

Ingredients

  • 200 ml gravy
  • White breadcrumbs
  • 50 g almonds, pounded
  • 2 egg yolks
  • Fowl breast, roasted
  • 200 ml cream
  • 3 tbsp salt
  • 3 tbsp pepper
Queen’s Sauce (Hartshorne)

Photo: Giovanni Battista Nini / Wikimedia Commons / CC0

Procedure

  1. Place the gravy into a saucepan and simmer, stirring the breadcrumbs into it until thickened.
  2. Add the almonds, egg yolks, fowl breast, and cream. Mix well until combined.
  3. Place onto a simmer and add salt and pepper to serve.

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