New Century Sauce

225. Fish Sauce.

226. Sauce Piquante (for Meat, Fowl, Game, Rabbit, &c.).

227. Sauce for Venison, Hare, &c.

228. Tomato Sauce Piquante.

229. Sauce for Roast Pork, Ham, &c.

230. For masking Cutlets, &c.



Part I

The Cook's Decameron

Prologue

The Marchesa di Sant'Andrea finished her early morning cup of tea,
and then took up the batch of correspondence which her maid had
placed on the tray. The world had a way of treating her in kindly
fashion, and hostile or troublesome letters rarely veiled their
ugly faces under the envelopes addressed to her; wherefore the
perfection of that pleasant half-hour lying between the last sip of
tea and the first step to meet the new day was seldom marred by the
perusal of her morning budget. The apartment which she graced with her