Re: [london.food] Pepper Sauce

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From: Billy Abbott
Subject: Re: [london.food] Pepper Sauce
Date: 12:47 on 29 Jan 2004
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Martin Frost wrote:

> Billy Abbott wrote:
>
> > How do you make a pepper sauce to go with steak?
> >
> > I've tried a couple of times to make nice creamy pepper sauce, but it's
> > always gone wrong, either not tasting of pepper or steak, seperating or
> > just turning into burnt milk sludge.
>
> The first thing I discovered is not to use milk. It makes everything
> taste of boiled milk. Also, green peppercorns will give flavour without
> being overwhelmingly hot, which would happen with black ones.

i hvae yet to try milk - my success with reducing things is minimal, so
the thinnest milky product i used is single cream. That still didn;t work
:)

My normal method that i have been playing with is:

1) Fry steak
2) add some form of booze to degalze the pan
3) add green peppercorns and cook for a bit
4) add milky product (tried creme fraiche the other day and it almost
worked, apart from the seperating) and heat a bit

i also ground lots of black pepper into it last time, which seemed to
help the taste, but it still seperated.

billy

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