The recipe
Ingredients
Contains: soy (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
Also mentioned in the method: soy
Directions
Make the brown sauce
Melt the sugar over medium heat until it browns, as if making candy.
Add the water and stir for about 10 minutes.
Pour the mixture into a bottle and seal tightly.
Use
Use this as a substitute for soy sauce to brown soups or gravies.
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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What each ingredient does
- Sugar
- Browns and caramelizes under heat, giving the sauce its color and deep, toasted flavor.
- Water
- Dissolves the caramelized sugar into a pourable liquid that can be stirred and stored.
The step that matters
Browning the sugar. Sugar can go from amber to burnt very quickly. Once it turns dark and bitter, the sauce will taste harsh, so watch the color closely and stop before it smokes heavily.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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