• Recipe by Sarah Dall

    Home-made mustard sauce

    Serves: 500ml
    Cooking Time: 15 mins

    Ingredients

    • 500ml (2 cups) milk
    • 1 bay leaf
    • ½ onion
    • 5 black peppercorns
    • 3 sprigs fresh thyme
    • 50g butter
    • 50g cake flour
    • 20ml (4 tsp) hot English mustard powder
    • juice of 1 lemon
    • salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

    Instructions

    1

    Place the milk, bay leaf, onion, peppercorns and thyme in a small pot and scald. Remove from heat and strain.

    2

    Melt butter in a pot over low heat and remove from heat. Add flour, return to heat and cook for 1 minute. Slowly add the strained milk, stirring. The mixture must thicken and come to a boil.

    3

    Add mustard powder and simmer for a further 2 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in the lemon juice and season.