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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sauce
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(a) cheese sauce
▪ I made a cheese sauce to go with the pasta.
curry sauce (=a sauce for making curry, often in a jar)
mint sauce
▪ roast lamb with mint sauce
sauce boat
soy sauce
tartare sauce
white sauce
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brown
▪ Browned under the grill and served with mustard, chutney, or a bottled brown or tomato sauce.
cream
▪ She loves chicken and wanted ways to liven it up without using fattening butter or cream sauces.
▪ A good food wine, it would be a nice complement to grilled dishes or ones with cream sauces.
▪ Just how good it is depends mainly upon how much care one takes over the cream sauce.
▪ Serve with horseradish cream sauce, Yorkshire pudding and gravy.
▪ Skim off fat and add the remaining juices to the cream sauce.
▪ And they ate Papparadelle Ripiene stuffed with goat cheese and Parmesan and covered with a grated lemon peel and cream sauce.
▪ In a gratin dish pour a little of your cream sauce.
▪ Spice up tomato or cream sauces for fish and chicken.
creamy
▪ Whizz to a creamy green sauce.
▪ They ate fresh-from-the-oven Roselline di Pasta with fontina cheese and unsmoked ham in a creamy tomato sauce.
▪ Above: New potatoes in a creamy morel sauce.
▪ Pan-fried Louisiana crab cakes with remoulade sauce and Cobb salad with creamy tarragon sauce are perennial lunchtime favorites.
▪ And because they're condensed, they bring a thick, creamy texture to sauces - perfect for rice and pasta dishes.
▪ A creamy green sauce, redolent of sweet pea and butter, provides the final touch.
▪ The spiciness of the sausage played well against the sweetness of the creamy sauce that accompanied the mushrooms.
▪ Stir milk slowly into the peanut butter, making a creamy sauce.
horseradish
▪ Iced camembert cream, frozen horseradish sauce, and tomato ice all belong to this period.
▪ Serve with horseradish cream sauce, Yorkshire pudding and gravy.
▪ Pickled cucumbers and beetroot and horseradish sauce topped the bill.
▪ Squire's Choice - sliced roast beef rolled up with a filling of pickled red cabbage and horseradish sauce. 3.
hot
▪ Mix in sliced green and red peppers, laurel, and hot sauce.
▪ I got another bowl and started spooning off as much of the hot sauce as I could.
▪ The fried bean curd put one in mind of oriental griddle cakes and needed the hot sauces to extract their inscrutable flavour.
▪ A sauce is then made of currant jelly, Worcestershire and hot sauces, and the duck essence from the press.
▪ Stir in parsley, lemon juice and hot pepper sauce.
▪ The primary variable in this bread is the spice blend, which includes a vinegar-based hot pepper sauce.
▪ Disappointed by the low market price for fresh chiles, Tran turned his crop into more profitable hot sauce.
▪ In fact, mangoes can be found in spicy chutneys, salsas, relishes and hot sauces.
light
▪ Reduce over medium heat to a light sauce consistency.
▪ Add pepita mixture to pan along with enough stock and reduce to a light sauce consistency.
▪ When flame dies out, add stock and reduce quickly over high heat to a light sauce consistency.
▪ Add orange zest, tomatoes, and raisins and simmer approximately 10 minutes to form a light sauce consistency.
▪ Place liquid in a saucepan and reduce over high heat to a light sauce consistency.
▪ Add cream and vanilla bean and reduce over medium-high heat to a light sauce consistency; strain.
▪ Add cream and reduce to a light sauce consistency.
red
▪ Sea bream, with shallot and red wine sauce, comes a close second in the restaurant.
▪ The latter is served with a lemon-basil aioli instead of the usual tomato-based red sauce.
▪ The remaining marinade forms the base of a red wine sauce with cranberries, redcurrants and slices of lime.
▪ Other poultry, especially quail or chicken in a red wine sauce, also marry beautifully with Pinot Noir.
▪ The pot stickers pan fried, hot and awesome when dumped in the mustard and red sauce they put on your table.
rich
▪ I like plainer food and less rich sauces.
▪ Fatty fish or chicken with a rich sauce were the food recommendations.
▪ A few berries in a rich wine sauce for goose or chicken adds a delicious note.
▪ The ravioli are cooked al dente and topped with a rich tomato vodka sauce.
▪ Steak au Poivre Serves 2 Steak au poivre is traditionally served in a rich sauce of brandy and cream.
▪ The food associated with economic capital is characterized by rich sauces and desserts, and rare and luxurious items such as truffles.
▪ The meat within was garnished with herbs and cooked in a rich onion sauce.
soy
▪ Check the seasoning and add a little more soy sauce if desired.
▪ Stir in pepper and soy sauce.
▪ Pour in a little of the stock and add the soy sauce.
▪ In a small bowl, combine oils, soy sauce and ginger slices.
▪ After a liberal sprinkling of monosodium glutamate and a dousing in soy sauce they were ready for the table.
▪ It might be dressed with salsa, marinated in soy sauce, stuffed with cheese or laced with peanut butter.
▪ Next, add the meat, soy sauce, green onions, and deep-fried bean curd.
▪ Add the soy sauce, brown sugar and vinegar, and process again.
spicy
▪ The smoky flavors of the grilled rabbit combine perfectly with the spicy peanut-chili dipping sauce.
▪ I set the glass down on the floor near my chair and forked up some cold shrimp in a spicy sauce.
▪ These meaty ribs are briefly roasted, then slow-baked with a dark, spicy sauce.
▪ It is served with a spicy marinara sauce.
sweet
▪ The juice also makes a good base for a sweet and sour sauce.
▪ A dish of sweet and sour sauce is provided for dipping.
▪ The two taste components match-sweet wine with sweet sauce.
tabasco
▪ During the first few months of traveling, I ate only candy bars and salad with Tabasco sauce.
▪ Guys would carry tabasco sauce to kill the taste of everything.
▪ Stir in undrained diced tomatoes, rice, chili powder and Tabasco sauce.
▪ A dash of Tabasco sauce in this recipe is optional.&038;.
white
▪ Add the red pepper and leek and steam for a further 5 minutes. 2 Meanwhile, make a white sauce.
▪ Add white sauce mixing slightly and dot with 1 tablespoon butter.
▪ Added to a simple white sauce, they make a good accompaniment to plain meats such as boiled bacon.
▪ Remove the white sauce from the oven.
▪ Lasagna; an avalanche of white sauce tearing down the glen.
▪ Salmon Parisienne with a delicious white wine sauce.
▪ Repeat the layers, finishing with the white sauce, and sprinkle with the cheeses.
▪ Prepare a white sauce by melting the butter in a pan, then adding the flour.
wine
▪ And the horseradish potato puree, braised greens, Maytag blue cheese and port wine sauce are also praiseworthy.
▪ Other poultry, especially quail or chicken in a red wine sauce, also marry beautifully with Pinot Noir.
▪ Chef Tony Rea said a popular entree is ostrich pepper steak in a wine sauce for $ 22. 95.
■ NOUN
barbecue
▪ Pour the barbecue sauce over the spare ribs.
▪ It is certainly a better symbol than barbecue sauce.
▪ The winner got a bottle of barbecue sauce and that most time-honored reward of childhood, a gold star.
boat
▪ Season to taste, strain into a sauce boat and serve.
▪ Strain the sauce through a fine-mesh sieve and pour into a sauce boat.
▪ Strain into a sauce boat. 4.
cheese
▪ Simmer chunks in milk until tender, then use the milk for a cheese sauce.
▪ Tea: Poached fish in cheese sauce, peas, baked potato, piece of fresh fruit.
▪ Dinner Cauliflower in low-fat cheese sauce.
chili
▪ In a medium microwave-safe bowl, add the tangerine juice, wine, cornstarch mixture, honey and chili sauce.
▪ Put the browned chicken back into the skillet and add the orange juice, chicken stock and chili sauce.
▪ Add chili sauce and lime juice and continue simmering, stirring frequently, until sauce thickens, 8 to 10 minutes.
▪ Only the gummy ancho chili sauce marred the beauty of the dish.
cranberry
▪ Our hotel had an indoor pool, a nightclub and good food - notably, reindeer stew with cranberry sauce.
▪ Oh, Benjy, we needed some cranberry sauce, but I called and asked Aunt Maude to bring some.
▪ Festive Filling - cooked chopped turkey and apple combined with cranberry sauce. 9.
▪ Homemade cranberry sauce with slivers of almonds and pieces of orange peel.
▪ It's lovely with new potatoes and cranberry sauce.
▪ The turkey, dressing and cranberry sauce were particularly yummy this year.
▪ Place the fromagefrais and cranberry sauce in a liquidiser or processor and blend well.
▪ Serve immediately with crisp salad, such as chicory, watercress and orange, and cranberry sauce.
mint
▪ Avoid vinegary mint sauce and serve a home-made sauce instead.
mustard
▪ Nor is the lobster smeared with a mustard sauce, as most chefs imagine.
▪ To serve, spoon a pool of mustard sauce on each warm serving plate and arrange rabbit pieces on top.
▪ Add mustard sauce, season and bring to the boil very quickly so as not to overcook meat.
▪ Served with a spicy-sweet mustard sauce, this was an auspicious beginning to our meal.
▪ It comes with a tangy coarse-grained mustard sauce.
pepper
▪ Add water, garlic, parsley, pepper sauce and salt; bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
▪ The agents poured pepper sauce down their nostrils, or forced water down their throats.
▪ Stir in parsley, lemon juice and hot pepper sauce.
▪ The primary variable in this bread is the spice blend, which includes a vinegar-based hot pepper sauce.
▪ Offer pepper sauce on the side.
▪ To make pepper sauce, place garlic in a food processor or blender and mince.
▪ Add shrimp, corn, cheese, avocado, tomatoes, onion and more salt and hot pepper sauce to taste.
spaghetti
▪ Even serious broadsheets have carried stories about a bee in a bun and a metal bolt in a tin of spaghetti sauce.
▪ What fun Miles and Evan have figuring out how to weigh us in jars of Ragu spaghetti sauce!
▪ Cover the bottom of a 2-quart casserole dish with spaghetti sauce, top with chicken, then pour remaining sauce over chicken.
tomato
▪ A tomato sauce can be completely changed by two or three minutes more or less of reduction or concentration by steady simmering.
▪ Tomato sauce, tomatoes and pizza made with tomato sauce were preventive in one six-year study.
▪ Add one sliced onion, a can of tomato sauce and hot water.
▪ One day Nockerd came to work and found tomato sauce poured all over the floor in the cooler.
▪ A world devoid of tomato soup, tomato sauce, tomato ketchup and tomato paste is hard to visualize.
▪ They ate fresh-from-the-oven Roselline di Pasta with fontina cheese and unsmoked ham in a creamy tomato sauce.
▪ Pour on tomato sauce and sprinkle 1 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese over top of each.
▪ I made her favorite red snapper with tomato sauce.
■ VERB
add
▪ Heat a wok or heavy-based pan, add the black bean sauce and heat gently.
▪ Add fresh and dried mushrooms and garlic and saute for 2 minutes. Add reserved rabbit sauce, tomato, and basil.
▪ Mix the cornflour with a little cold water and stir into the sauce. Add the Worcester sauce.
▪ Cover with remaining potatoes. Add white sauce mixing slightly and dot with 1 tablespoon butter.
▪ Pour in a little of the stock and add the soy sauce.
▪ Blend until fairly smooth. Add the soy sauce, brown sugar and vinegar, and process again.
▪ Cook until mixture comes away from side of pan. Add Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper.
▪ Add water chestnut mixture and stir-fry for about 1 minute. Add pine nuts and sauce and bring to a gentle boil.
cook
▪ The meat is then ready to be cooked with the sauce and any other ingredients such as onions and mushrooms.
▪ Blend the cornflour with a tablespoon of water, add to the pan and cook the sauce until thickened.
▪ Add the reserved cooking water to the sauce and stir to blend.
▪ Stir in the cooking sauce and heat gently for about 15-20 minutes.
▪ Stir the cooked pasta into the sauce and pile into a serving dish.
dip
▪ The smoky flavors of the grilled rabbit combine perfectly with the spicy peanut-chili dipping sauce.
▪ The combination of the sweet meat and the lovely herb-infused dipping sauce made it a winner.
▪ He folded a slice of bread, which he dipped into the sauce.
▪ This pur e makes a nutty and savory dipping sauce.
▪ Place this sauce in a small bowl to use as a dipping sauce.
make
▪ Add the red pepper and leek and steam for a further 5 minutes. 2 Meanwhile, make a white sauce.
▪ Add raisin mixture and cook momentarily, whisking to make a smooth sauce.
▪ I turned down the offer at first because I'd never made a roux sauce.
▪ Remove to a heated platter and keep warm while making the sauce.
▪ Blend pan contents, adding cream to make a speckled green sauce.
▪ Tomato sauce, tomatoes and pizza made with tomato sauce were preventive in one six-year study.
▪ Further down the river there are food-processing companies using river water as an input in making sauce for baked beans.
▪ Prepare the pan sauce: Quickly make a pan sauce by setting the roasting pan over two burners turned to high.
mix
▪ Or you can scoop out the flesh of the potatoes and mix it with the sauce.
▪ In a medium bowl, mix the sauce ingredients together.
▪ They are fermented and, consequently, have a strong flavour, being mixed with soya sauce and salt.
▪ Add salt, if desired. Mix macaroni and sauce and bake in a buttered casserole for hour.
pour
▪ Check the seasoning then pour the sauce over the chicken.
▪ Reduce over medium heat to a light sauce consistency. Pour sauce over rabbit and serve immediately.
▪ Put the meat on to a plate and pour the sauce and cherries around it.
▪ Carve bird into serving pieces. Pour sauce over and serve immediately.
▪ Arrange on a hot serving dish, pour a little sauce over and serve the rest separately.
▪ Strain the sauce through a fine-mesh sieve and pour into a sauce boat.
▪ Place the steaks on a hot serving plate, pour over the sauce and garnish with mint.
▪ The agents poured pepper sauce down their nostrils, or forced water down their throats.
reduce
▪ Remove the pears to a bowl, place the saucepan on the heat and reduce the sauce by half.
▪ Add pepita mixture to pan along with enough stock and reduce to a light sauce consistency.
▪ Cook until reduced to a medium sauce consistency.
▪ Add cream and reduce to a light sauce consistency.
▪ Add pureed pepper-onion mixture and reduce until sauce coats the back of a spoon, about 15 minutes.
reserve
▪ Add reserved rabbit sauce, tomato, and basil.
▪ Spoon reserved sauce over each leg.
▪ With a slotted spoon, remove the shrimp, draining slightly reserving the sauce.
▪ Meanwhile place the reserved sauce in the microwave and heat for 1 minute on 100 percent power.
▪ It can easily be frozen in a small container and reserved for sauces that require it.
serve
▪ Carry on until you have used up all the batter. Serve with apple sauce, sour cream or jam.
▪ Arrange duck pieces on individual serving plates and spoon sauce over top.
▪ Cook and serve with a sauce Pastrami p21/ Brisket of beef, salted and spiced then coated in peppercorns.
▪ Return all veal to pan and heat briefly. Serve immediately, spooning sauce over scaloppine.
▪ Top with instant mashed potato and brown under the grill. Serve with tomato sauce.
▪ Stir until thickened. 4 Drain chicken and serve with sauce and boiled rice.
▪ Bake in a 350-degree oven for 45 minutes or until center appears set. Serve warm with whiskey sauce.
spoon
▪ Unmould the stuffing, cut it into slices and serve with the duck. Spoon the sauce over the duck and stuffing.
▪ Remove plates from broiler and arrange a rabbit leg on each plate. Spoon reserved sauce over each leg.
▪ Season to taste. Spoon the sauce over the fish and serve immediately.
▪ Serve immediately, spooning sauce over scaloppine.
▪ Cut the sides of the monkfish from the bone and arrange on individual plates. Spoon the sauce on to the plates.
▪ Stir in the garlic. Spoon sauce over the chicken and then sprinkle with nuts and basil.
stir
▪ Drain the pasta and stir into the sauce.
▪ Return the pasta to the same large kettle and stir in the sauce.
▪ Mix the cornflour with a little cold water and stir into the sauce.
▪ Stir in snow peas, and cook for 3 minutes. Stir in pesto sauce, and serve.
▪ Bring to the boil and slowly add the arrowroot mixture, stirring constantly until the sauce has thickened.
▪ Add chili sauce and lime juice and continue simmering, stirring frequently, until sauce thickens, 8 to 10 minutes.
▪ Bring to the boil, stirring until the sauce is clear and thickened.
▪ I miss smelling new smells and stirring new sauces and being surprised by the taste of something different.
strain
▪ Using fine-mesh strainer, strain sauce into mixing bowl and place bowl in larger mixing bowl of ice water to cool sauce.
▪ They infuse a sauce with a wonderful flavor, and they can be strained out of the sauce before serving if desired.
▪ Remove vanilla bean, and scrape soft center into strained sauce.
▪ Add stock and reduce to a light sauce consistency. Strain sauce and return to pan.
▪ Quickly deglaze roasting pan with wine, scraping up the brown bits. Strain into sauce.
▪ Place birds on a warm serving platter. Strain sauce and return it to pan.
▪ Remove rabbit and reduce liquid over high heat to a light sauce consistency. Strain sauce and reserve.
taste
▪ Season with salt and pepper and lay in a baking dish. Taste sauce for seasoning and correct if necessary.
thicken
▪ Stir in the quark to thicken the sauce.
▪ It is then thickened slightly for the sauce.
use
▪ So, to bring out the best in your cooking make sure you use the purest soy sauce, Kikkoman Soy Sauce.
▪ This rich broth can be used for soups or sauces or frozen in containers or ice cube trays for later use.
▪ If the potatoes have been peeled the cooking water can be used for sauces or soups.
▪ Each one uses a sauce that's a little bit special and is particularly enhanced by the shape of the pasta.
▪ This mixture is used to infuse sauces and marinades with great effectiveness.
▪ Both gin and white wine are used in the sauce.
▪ If you are using commercial sauce, thin it down and maybe add a little oregano and basil.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ chicken in a rich, creamy sauce
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Drain well and stir into the sauce.
▪ It was only tomato sauce, after all!
▪ Stir in fish sauce, coconut milk, sugar, and lime juice and bring to a simmer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sauce

Sauce \Sauce\ (s[add]s), v. t. [Cf. F. saucer.] [imp. & p. p. Sauced (s[add]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Saucing (s[add]"s[i^]ng).]

  1. To accompany with something intended to give a higher relish; to supply with appetizing condiments; to season; to flavor.

  2. To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate; hence, to cover, mingle, or dress, as if with sauce; to make an application to. [R.]

    Earth, yield me roots; Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison!
    --Shak.

  3. To make poignant; to give zest, flavor or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive.

    Then fell she to sauce her desires with threatenings.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

    Thou sayest his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings.
    --Shak.

  4. To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to. [Colloq. or Low]

    I'll sauce her with bitter words.
    --Shak.

Sauce

Sauce \Sauce\, n. [F., fr. OF. sausse, LL. salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p. p. of salire to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse pickle, Souse to plunge.]

  1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. ``Poignant sauce.''
    --Chaucer.

    High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies.
    --Sir S. Baker.

  2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]
    --Forby. Bartlett.

    Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt.
    --Beverly.

  3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] ``Stewed apple sauce.''
    --Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book).

  4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.]
    --Haliwell.

    To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind.

Sauce

Sauce \Sauce\ (s[=o]s), n. [F.] (Fine Art) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sauce

mid-14c., from Old French sauce, sausse, from Latin salsa "things salted, salt food," noun use of fem. singular or neuter adjective salsus "salted," from past participle of Old Latin sallere "to salt," from sal (genitive salis) "salt" (see salt (n.)).\n

\nMeaning "something which adds piquancy to words or actions" is recorded from c.1500; sense of "impertinence" first recorded 1835 (see saucy, and compare sass). Slang meaning "liquor" first attested 1940.

sauce

mid-15c., "to season," from sauce (n.). From 1862 as "to speak impertinently." Related: Sauced; saucing.

Wiktionary
sauce

n. 1 A liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food. 2 (context UK Australia English) tomato sauce (similar to US tomato ketchup), as in: 3 (context slang usually "the" English) alcohol, booze. 4 (context bodybuilding English) anabolic steroid. 5 (context art English) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump. 6 (context internet slang English) (alternative form of source dot=; English) used when requesting the source of an image. 7 (context dated English) cheek; impertinence; backtalk; sass. suf. (context slang English) An intensifier suffix. vb. 1 To add sauce to; to season. 2 To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate. 3 To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. 4 (context colloquial English) To treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

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WordNet
sauce

n. flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

sauce

  1. v. behave saucy or impudently towards

  2. dress (food) with a relish

  3. add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"

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Sauce (disambiguation)

Sauce is a liquid condiment or accompaniment to food.

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Usage examples of "sauce".

Cover with salted and acidulated water, bring to the boil, simmer for half an hour, drain, garnish with lemon and parsley, and serve with a parsley sauce.

Boil until tender in salted and acidulated water to cover and serve with Hollandaise Sauce.

He followed ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL167 with an antistaphylococcal injection and finally handed over a sauce bottle filled to the rim with acriflavine solution.

Look for them, canned in adobo sauce, in the Mexican foods section of big grocery stores.

The beauty of this advertisement comes from many elementsfirst, the association with an Italian icon, and second, the brilliant execution that ties so wonderfully to the concept of two kinds of sauce.

Our cooks employ it with vinegar for making the mint sauce which we eat with roast lamb, because of its condimentary virtues as a spice to the immature meat, whilst the acetic acid of the vinegar serves to help dissolve the crude albuminous fibre.

Monica, chicken and andouille gumbo, and bread pudding in whiskey sauce.

I smell the tarragon in the Breton sauce prepared for the artichoke leaves, and hurry to the drinks cabinet, heart thumping, absurdly fearful that my living soul is chopped into the sauce with the tarragon leaves.

They dined on slivers of artichoke heart drizzled with a peppery sauce of black olives and capers, followed by slices of chicken that had been marinated in lime, coriander, and juniper.

To prepare Jerusalem artichokes for boiling pare and slice thin into cold water to prevent turning dark, boil in salted water, season and serve with drawn butter or a good sauce.

Make a sauce of the butter, flour, salt, paprica, and water in which the asparagus was cooked, or use half a cup of cream in the place of part of the asparagus liquor.

For three cups of peas make one cup of drawn-butter sauce, using as liquid the water in which the asparagus was cooked, or white stock.

When the sauce has set, brush over the medallions with aspic jelly, cold but not set.

When ready to serve, prepare as lobster sandwiches with aspic, using fish in the place of lobster, and, if desired, sauce tartare in the place of mayonnaise.

I tossed the paper into the kitchen bin, where it fluttered to rest among the dead teabags and accumulated strata of half-eaten frozen TV dinners, their seams marked by the azoic ooze of brightly coloured sauces.