Old Fashioned Mint Sauce Recipes

HOMEMADE MINT SAUCE

Steps:

• Finely chop the mint leaves, discarding the stalks.
• Place in a bowl and cover with the boiling water. Leave to steep for a few minutes, then drain over a sieve.
• Give the leaves a rinse with cold water whilst still in the sieve (to stop the cooking process) and place in a small serving bowl with the sugar, vinegar and salt.
• Stir together and leave for 20-30 minutes - to allow the flavour to develop. Then serve.

MINT SAUCE FOR LAMB

Steps:

• Place mint leaves in a small bowl. Stir in water, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper until sugar is dissolved. Cover and let steep for 20 minutes, then serve immediately with lamb.

EASY REAL BRITISH MINT SAUCE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Pull the leaves from the stalk of the mint. Roughly chop the leaves.
• Place the chopped mint leaves into a heatproof jug, sprinkle over the sugar, then pour over the boiling water. Stir gently, cover, and place to one side, and leave to cool.
• Once cool, stir in the vinegar and taste the sauce. If it is too strong, just add a little more water. Too weak, add more mint. Cover again and leave to one side for at least an hour, longer if you have the time. The mint flavor will seep into the sugar-vinegar as it sits. Use the mint sauce or store in the fridge for up to two weeks.

REAL MINT SAUCE

Steps:

• Strip off the mint leaves, sprinkle with salt and chop finely.
• Place into a jug, add the sugar and pour over the boiling water, stir and leave to cool.
• Stir in the vinegar and taste.
• Add more water or vinegar and adjust seasoning to suit your taste.

GOOD OLD FASHIONED MINT SAUCE

Steps:

• Put the mint into a bowl with the sugar and water, stir until sugar has dissolved.
• Add salt and vinegar and allow to tand for 30 minutes.
• Serve.

OLD-FASHIONED BUTTER MINTS

Steps:

• To the bowl of stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter and salt and beat for 1 minute on medium-high speed.
• Add 3 1/4 cups confectioners' sugar, milk, peppermint, and beat on medium-low speed until a dough forms. If the dough seems wet, add additional confectioners' sugar until dough combines (I use 3 1/2 cups sugar). The dough will be crumbly but will come together when pinched and squeezed into a ball.
• Taste the batter. If you want a more intense mint flavor, add additional mint extract, to taste (see note below).
• Remove dough from the mixer, separate it into 1 to 4 smaller balls, and add one ball back into the mixer. Add the food coloring of your choice to the ball by squirting the droplets on top of the dough (careful when you turn on the mixer), and paddle on low speed until coloring is well-blended. Coloring will not blend completely into each and every speck of dough if examined extremely closely, but overall, mix until color is uniform. (I separated approximately two-thirds of the dough and made it green using about 15 drops green food coloring and made one-third of the dough red-pink by using about 7 drops red food coloring).
• Wash the mixing bowl and the paddle in between each color change and repeat until all the balls are colored.
• After the dough has been colored, either wrap it with plastic wrap and place it in an airtight container in the refrigerator to be rolled out later or roll it immediately.
• To shape the butter mints, place a golf-ball sized amount of dough in your hands and roll dough into long thin cylinders about 1 centimeter wide. Place cylinders on countertop and with a pizza cutter (or knife - be careful of your counter), slice cylinders into bite-sized pieces, approximately 1 centimeter long.
• Store mints in an airtight container in the refrigerator where they will keep for many weeks.

OLD-FASHIONED MINT SAUCE RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Place the water, vinegar, and confectioners' sugar in the slow cooker. Cover and cook on HIGH until at a good rolling boil, about 45 minutes. 2. Remove the lid and let the liquid evaporate a bit while you remove the spearmint leaves from their stems and finely chop them. Add the mint and salt to the cooker, cover, and cook until the leaves are limp, 5 to 10 minutes. Serve warm. The sauce will keep in the refrigerator in an airtight container for several days, but the mint will lose some of its fresh flavor.