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The first recipe of a sauce similar to béchamel is in the book Le cuisinier françois by François Pierre de La Varenne in 1651, made with a roux, as in modern recipes. [3] The name of the sauce was given in honour of Louis de Béchameil, a financier who held the honorary post of chief steward to King Louis XIV of France in the 17th century.
However, while Lawson and Smith "insist that cooking can be easy, fun and uncomplicated", Beeton "acknowledges the labour and skill required to cook well". [1] The food writer and chef Gerard Baker tested and revised 220 of Beeton's recipes, and published the result as Mrs. Beeton: How To Cook (2011). [48]
A survivor of the medieval bread-thickened sauces, it typically accompanies domestic fowl such as turkey or chicken. Bread sauce can be traced back to at least as early as the medieval period, when cooks used bread as a thickening agent for sauces. The utilisation of bread in this way probably comes from cooks wanting to use up their stale ...
Cream gravy, or white gravy (sawmill gravy) is a bechamel sauce made using fats from meat—such as sausage or bacon—or meat drippings from roasting or frying meats. The fat and drippings are combined with flour to make a roux, and milk is typically used as the liquid to create the sauce, however, cream is often added or may be the primary ...
Delia Ann Smith CH CBE (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a direct style. One of the best known celebrity chefs in British popular culture , Smith has influenced viewers to become more culinarily adventurous.
Mornay sauce is a smooth sauce made from béchamel sauce (butter, flour, milk), grated cheese, salt, and pepper, and often enriched with egg yolk. [5][6] When used for fish, the sauce is generally thinned with fish broth. [7][8] The cheese may be Parmesan and Gruyère, [6][9][8] Parmesan alone, [5] Gruyère alone, [10] or various other cheeses.
A Book of Mediterranean Food was an influential [1] cookery book written by Elizabeth David in 1950, her first, and published by John Lehmann.After years of rationing and wartime austerity, the book brought light and colour [2] back to English cooking, with simple fresh ingredients, [2] from David's experience of Mediterranean cooking while living in France, Italy and Greece.
Discover the full potential of ground beef with a collection of 45 delicious recipes, ... of the Greek dish made with layers of eggplant and spiced ground beef and topped with a bechamel sauce.