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Salmon with Yellow Sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

• cooked salmon (as previous recipe) (as needed)
• 0.25 L white wine
• 0.12 L water
• 1 tbsp butter
• 2 pcs lemon slices
• mace (a little)
• 1 tsp potato flour
• 2 pcs egg yolks
• capers (plenty)

Instructions

1. Cook and arrange the salmon as in the previous recipe.
2. For the sauce, boil ¼ liter of white wine, half as much water, butter, lemon slices, and a little mace.
3. Thicken with potato flour mixed with a little water until clear.
4. Finally, finish the sauce with egg yolks and add plenty of capers.
5. Pour the sauce over the salmon.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.