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Russian Sauce for Sea Fish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp flour
• 2 cup fish stock (from turbot or similar)
• lemon juice (a little)
• 1 tbsp good table butter
• 2.5 tbsp caviar

Instructions

1. Melt one tablespoon of butter and let one tablespoon of flour turn yellow in it.
2. Add two cups of fish stock, in which turbot or another fine sea fish has been cooked, and let it boil until clear, sharpening the sauce with a little lemon juice.
3. After removing the sauce from the heat, place it in boiling water and add one tablespoon of good table butter and 2-3 tablespoons of caviar.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.