Sauces/Gravy Bacon-Sauce

24. bacon-sauce

(from The United States Cook Book: A Complete Manual for Ladies, Housekeepers and Cooks, by William Vollmer, 1856)

Ingredients:

2 oz. smoked bacon​

1 onion​

fine flour​

butter​

soup-stock​

vinegar​

salt & pepper​

cloves​

Instructions:

Cut two ounces of smoked bacon and an onion, into large pieces, brown some fine flour in a little butter, sweat the bacon and onion in it until it gets a colour, thin the sauce with soup-stock and vinegar, flavour it with salt, pepper, and cloves, and send it to the table rather thick.​

 

[JOHN42768]

Bacon, What's not not to like?

 

[donna]

Sounds like a rich sauce but tasty.