The Kitchen Magpie by James Steen

Author:James Steen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

While sauce is on my mind…

A sauce boat, gravy boat or saucière is a boat-shaped pitcher in which sauce or gravy is served. It often sits on a matching plate, sometimes attached to the pitcher, to catch dripping sauce. Often sauce boats are really annoying. They never clean well in a dishwasher as the water can’t get round the lips.

Sauce is a section within the traditional ranks of a professional kitchen, as in ‘I’m on Sauce’, usually meaning that the chef is cooking meat dishes and hot sauces. It’s very different to ‘I’m on the sauce.’ If a chef is on the sauce you don’t want him cooking your food.

Sauce boats became all the rage in the French Court of the 1690s. Silver sauce boats with two handles and two spouts were reported as early as 1690 and appear to have developed in response to the new and original nouvelle cuisine. French fashion was highly influential in 18th-century England, where such sauce boats were copied in English silver, and, from the 1740s, in English porcelain.

These boats do not float.

Rather than removing the stones from cherries before making jam, simply cook them whole and pass the cooked purée through a potato ricer to remove the stones. This trick also works for prunes.

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