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Mulligatawny Soup

Sauce should be boiled gently to remove butter from roux, which can be harmful if retained.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Mulligatawny Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Ensure your hot-plate is very hot.

  2. Remove any fat from the stocks.

  3. Divide the brown and white stocks into two equal-sized saucepans.

  4. For each sauce, place roux in a three-quart pan.

  5. Pour 1 pint of boiling stock over the roux and whisk until smooth.

  6. Continue adding boiling stock until you reach the desired quantity.

  7. Stir the sauce over the fire with a wooden spoon until it boils.

  8. Once boiling, reduce heat to keep it gently boiling until it thickens to a cream-like consistency.

  9. Repeat the process for the brown sauce, adjusting with more roux or stock as needed.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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