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[madbaker]

This week's Resolution Recipe: Lemon-Mustard Sauce.
"Serve this tangy cream sauce over eggses, poached or baked fish, or even freshly steamed vegetables."

4 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp flour
1 1/2 cups milk
2 egg yolks
3 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp Dijon mustard
pinch crushed red pepper to taste

Melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the flour and cook for three minutes, but do not allow the mixture to brown. Add the milk all at once, stirring constantly, and boil until slightly thick, about 5 minutes. Cover and set aside.

In a medium bowl, beat together the egg yolks, lemon juice, mustard, and red pepper. Stir 1/4 cup of the hot milk mixture into the egg mixture. Then pour the mixture back into the saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until thick, about 3 to 5 minutes. Do not boil.

Yields about 2 cups.

What worked: Easy (we made a half batch). It enlivened commercial bland turkey meatballs fairly well. It was fine.

What didn't: Eh, it was nothing worth noting.

Will I make it again? Maybe. This is out of a sauce cookbook that I often forget I have; most of the recipes are not very interesting or too fiddly, but occasionally there are some decent ones worth repeating which has so far kept it on my shelf.

Comments

[kareina]

Now I am curious about how you remember which recipes you liked and which you didn't. Is it enough to write these reviews once, and then you simply remember next time you see that recipe what you said? Do you need to go back and look it up in your record here? Or do you physically mark the book showing that you have tried it, and what you thought, either written directly on the page, or with annotated book marks or post-it notes or something?

[madbaker]

We have a recipe box full of ones we've tried and liked enough to redo. I don't mark up cookbooks as I am generally averse to defacing books, even ones I own. So with this many years of Resolution Recipes, sometimes I forget.