Browning for Gravies
Ingredients
Directions
Melt the sugar over medium heat until it turns brown, as if making candy.
Add the water and stir for 10 minutes.
Pour the mixture into a bottle and seal tightly.
Use this browning instead of soy sauce to enhance the color of 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
- Caramelizes when heated, giving the dark browning color and a deeper, slightly bitter-sweet flavor.
The step that matters
Melting the sugar until brown. Sugar caramelizes as it heats, and the color darkens quickly. Taking it too far turns the flavor bitter and burnt, so it should be removed once it reaches a deep brown rather than left to darken further.
“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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