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Olive Sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

• brown flour (a little)
• gravy or bouillon (as needed)
• lemon zest (a little)
• lemon juice (a little)
• mace (a little)
• finely chopped pickles (a little)
• whole peppercorns (a little)
• cloves (a little)
• shallots (a few)
• pitted olives (as needed)
• capers (as needed)

Instructions

1. Mix brown flour with gravy or bouillon and add lemon zest and juice, mace, finely chopped pickles, whole peppercorns and cloves, and a few shallots.
2. After everything has cooked well and been strained through a sieve, cook pitted olives and capers in it for a little longer.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.