[Sca-cooks] January 2009 MK Cooks Challenge

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jan 14, 2009, at 3:37 AM, ranvaig at columbus.rr.com wrote:

>> Pobrat sauce is usually thickened with sugar but sometimes also  
>> flour, flavored with spices (saffron, cinnamon, cloves and pepper)  
>> and wine, sometimes with stock, sometimes vinegar, and slices of  
>> orange or lemon.  It can be yellow, black, or grey (but I don't see  
>> how you get the colors). It can be sweet or sour.  Make it without  
>> fat if it is to be served cold.  It seems to be something added at  
>> plating, rather than cooking the item in it.  The Webster's online  
>> dictionary says Pobrat is a Czech word meaning "take all", that  
>> might or might not be connected.
>
> There are a couple of others, but these were the three mystery sauces.

Sauces known variously as Pevorat in English and Poivrade in French  
(among other spelling variants) are quite common medieval variations  
on pepper sauce. I'd be pretty surprised if it didn't turn out that  
those were the source for the name.

Adamantius






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