Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Green Verjuice Sauce




ORIGINAL RECEIPT:
Tak percely, a good quantite, & a litel peletre, & mynte, sauge, dytayne, grene garlyk; wasche hem, grynde smal, & bred therwyt. Tempere it wyt verius or wyt sorel & serue it forth.
- Austin, Thomas. Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books. Harleian MS. 279 & Harl. MS. 4016, with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1429, Laud MS. 553, & Douce MS 55. London: for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1888.


MODERN RECIPE:
  • 1 C parsley
  • 1 C mixed fresh, green herbs, including mint, sage, chives, and other green herbs
  • 3/4 C white bread crumbs
  • 1/2 C white grape juice
  • 1/4 C wine vinegar
  • Garlic to taste
  • 1/4 tsp hot mustard powder
  • Salt to taste
1. In a blender or food processor, combine herbs and bread crumbs, and grind them fine.
2. Add the mustard powder, salt, apple juice and vinegar, and blend thoroughly. Pour the sauce into a bowl and allow it to sit for about an hour. Stir well before serving.

Yields one cup of sauce. 

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