G'day Pandora,

In article >, "Pandora"
> wrote:
>I made this BBQ sauce last september. I put it in a little glass pot and
>kept out of frigo. I often use to season my BBQ meat.
>Recipe:
>100 gr. (3,5 oz) of anchovies;
>100 gr.(3,5oz) of sugar;
>370 gr. (about 13-14oz) of black balsamic vinegar ;
>1/2 glass of good dry white wine;
>5 scallions;
>3 garlic cloves;
>1 lemon (only sauce);
>4-5 dry hot chili peppers (the very small one; or, if big only one);
>4-5 sage's leaves;

[You don't need the possessive form for things like this, you can just
say "sage leaves" -- well, here in Oz you can anyway. :-) ]

>5-6 estragon's leaves;
>2 laurel's leaves;
>1 little branche of thyme;
>2 spoons of dried mushrooms (boletus);
>1/2 teaspoon of salt;
>1 spoon not full of black pepper's grains;
>5-6 peppermint's leaves;
>3-4 juniper's berry;

[In this case I think "juniper berries" would be more idiomatic.]

>(for this recipe you can use also dried herbs, but fresh are better)
>------------------------------------------------

Somehow I don't think this will make it into the next edition of "The
Four Ingredient Cookbook". ;-)

>Melt sugar in inox pot with fire at minimum. When the sugar begin to change
>the color, take away from fire and mix it with the wine.
>(If the melted sugar must wait, put it near a hot place to avoid that it
>become hard).
>Mince the scallions and add crushed pepper's grains , crushed garlic cloves
>and the herbs. Mix all this things with the vinigar and put on fire in a pot
>boiling till the liquid is just 3/4 of the original.
>At this point, add the melt sugar and the other ingrdients of recipe (lemon
>and minced anchovies). Boil for others 5 minutes mixing with a spoon.
>Add the salt only if is necessary. Take away this sauce from the fire and
>filtre it in a colander. The sauce is ready. taste and add other salt if you
>want. Put it in an ermetic glass pot.
>It is VERY VERY GOOD for your barbeque meat! Here the photos
>http://tinypic.com/6yyxhw.jpg [and] http://tinypic.com/6yyxra.jpg

It looks like the cat has already been fed! :-)


Cheers, Phred.

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