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Agra Dolce

(Sour Sweet)

(An Italian sauce used with venison, sweetbreads, calf's-head, and mutton)

Ingredients

• 2 heaping tablespoonfuls of brown sugar
• 1/4 bar of grated chocolate
• 1 tablespoonful of shredded candied orange
• 1 tablespoonful of shredded candied lemon-peel
• 10 blanched almonds shredded
• 1/2 cupful of currants
• 1 cupful of vinegar

Instructions

Mix together the brown sugar, chocolate, candied orange and lemon-peel, almonds, currants, and vinegar. Let them soak for two hours. Then pour it over the cooked meat, and simmer for ten minutes.

This receipt was obtained in Florence, where it is a well-known and favorite sauce.

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Source

The Century Cook Book (1901).

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