French Cream Sauce
6
Servings
Servings
10m PT10M
Prep Time
Prep Time
20m PT20M
Cook Time
Cook Time
30m
Ready In
Ready In
Recipe: #31080
December 14, 2018
Categories: Sauce, Butter Sauces, Dairy, French, Entertaining, Romantic Dinner, Sunday Dinner, Heavy Cream more
"A colonial recipe adapted from the Michie Tavern in Charlottesville, VA."
Original recipe yields 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (47.4 g)
- Calories 109.3
- Total Fat - 11.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 7 g
- Cholesterol - 37.6 mg
- Sodium - 42.5 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 1.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.2 g
- Sugars - 0.4 g
- Protein - 0.6 g
- Calcium - 17.4 mg
- Iron - 0.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step 1
Reduction: Saute shallots in butter until just softened. Add vinegar, lemon juice and wine, then reduce until you have about 2 tablespoons of liquid left.
Step 2
Add cream and stir constantly over low heat. When mixture begins to thicken, stir in remaining butter to melt.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.