Brown Sauce Celery On Toast

Ingredients

• 3 heads celery
• 3 cups hot stock
• ¼ cup butter or drippings
• ½ carrot
• ½ onion
• 1 tsp salt
• Cayenne pepper
• Flour
• Butter (for browning flour)
• Toast

Method

1. 1 Trim celery, cut into 4-inch lengths, and blanch in boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse in cold water.
2. 2 Bundle celery and simmer in stock with butter, carrot, onion, salt, and cayenne until tender. Drain celery and reserve liquid.
3. 3 Skim fat from liquid. Brown flour in butter, then whisk in liquid to thicken into a sauce.
4. 4 Arrange celery on toast, pour sauce over, and serve.