What is Cumberland sauce?
Cumberland sauce is a rich, dark colored wine sauce with citrus undertones used in Britain as a spice for game, pork, wild and cold meat. Most of the recipes for this fruit -based sauce require a combination of port wine, jelly redcurrant, citrus, shallots, mustard, pepper and ground ginger. The sauce is said to have come in Germany Hanover, but his namesake is the English Lord Cumberland, who was a lover of the sauce. The Cumberland sauce can be made from zero or purchased for about $ 10 (USD). Sometimes it is referred to as Oxford sauce.
There are several recipes for Cumberland in cookbooks and online, but most share the same basic ingredients and instructions. To make the sauce from scratch, the enthusiasm of two oranges and one lemon sliced, for one minute and exhausted. The juices are pushed out of oranges and lemon and are then set aside. One finely chopped shallot and one ounce (25 g) peeled and grated gingeru are roasted in butter until the shallots are soft, which usually lasts three or four minutes.
The chef then adds a peel, juice, five ounces (150 ml) of the harbor and one teaspoon (5 g) of Dijon mustard to the pan containing roasted shallots, bringing the entire mixture to a boil. When the sauce was reduced by half, added 14 ounces (400 g) jelly and one tablespoon (15 g) of soft green pepper and left to boil for five minutes or until the jelly does not drill into the sauce. The sauce is cooled and cold, either directly on the meat or on the side.
The exact history of this popular spice is a mystery. A recipe for a similar sauce appeared in a popular cookbook published in 1821, Cook's Oracle Dr. William Kitchiner. The first English reference to Cumberland sauce is located in 1878 Oxford English Dictionary . Previous links to sauce are found sources of herIn 1856, including one link from the hotel from 1870 New Orleans.
Most Cumberland sauce, which is available for purchase, is made and bottled in England and then exports. Online shops and interpretations in England and abroad sell spices in individual containers or cases. One cumberland vessel is sold for about $ 10, without right. The case of 12 glasses is sold for about $ 110.