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In French cuisine, the "mother sauces" (sauces mères, also grandes sauces) are the foundation of many other "daughter sauces" (petites sauces). Different classifications of mother sauces have been proposed since at least the early 19th century; the most common current list is Béchamel, Espagnole, Hollandaise, Tomate, and Velouté.
Mayonnaise, in the chapter on cold sauces, was described as a mother sauce for cold sauces, and compared to Espagnole and Velouté. [ 50 ] The 1907 English edition of Le guide culinaire , A Guide to Modern Cookery , listed fewer "basic sauces", including Hollandaise alongside espagnole, "half glaze" (demi glace), velouté, allemande, béchamel ...
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Ketchup and mustard on fries Various grades of U.S. maple syrup. A condiment is a supplemental food (such as a sauce or powder) that is added to some foods to impart a particular flavor, enhance their flavor, [1] or, in some cultures, to complement the dish, but that cannot stand alone as a dish.
In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavour, texture, and visual appeal to a dish. Sauce is a French word probably from the post-classical Latin salsa, derived from the classical salsus 'salted'. [1]
Perhaps this list, which by the way is lots of fun to read through, should be rooted in a deep understanding of the long-running relationship between the French and English languages, driven by cultural, political, economic, military, academic, religious, and other forces among the French, English and Americans.
This is a list of dessert sauces. A dessert sauce is a sauce that serves to add flavor, moisture, texture and color to desserts . [ 1 ] Dessert sauces may be cooked or uncooked.
By the middle of the 19th century the sauce was familiar in the English-speaking world: in her Modern Cookery of 1845 Eliza Acton gave two recipes for it, one with added wine and one without. [8] The sauce was included in Auguste Escoffier's 1903 classification of the five mother sauces, on which much French cooking depends. [9]