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Caper Sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp flour
• 2 cup meat broth
• 2 tbsp capers
• 1 pinch pepper
• lemon juice or vinegar (as needed)

Instructions

1. Cook down a light roux made from two tablespoons of butter and one tablespoon of flour with two cups of meat broth, then add two heaped tablespoons of capers and season the sauce with a pinch of pepper and, if necessary, a little lemon juice or vinegar.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.