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Fish Velouté
Velouté de poisson begins with clear fumet and a pale roux, then asks only twenty minutes of watchful skimming. Master that restraint and the whole family of classical fish sauces opens.
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Allemande Sauce or Thickened Velouté
A lesson in liaison and restraint: velouté, yolks, cream, lemon, and mushroom liquor reduced to a silken nappe, then mounted with butter off the fire so its gloss holds.
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Hollandaise Sauce
Sauce hollandaise is the warm emulsion that teaches every butter-mounted sauce: cook the yolks to a pale cream, keep the heat gentle, then give the butter time to become one with them.
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Brown Roux
Flour and clarified butter, cooked slowly to a fine hazelnut brown: the foundational roux that gives dark French sauces depth while preserving enough starch to bind them.
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Velouté de Volaille
A pale poultry velouté that teaches the mother-sauce grammar: keep the roux white, add stock without lumps, then simmer gently until flour and butter disappear into one glossy, supple whole.
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Ordinary Velouté Sauce
Sauce Velouté Ordinaire is the white mother sauce stripped to its grammar: fragrant veal stock, pale roux, patient skimming, and no clove to prop up a weak foundation.
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Half Glaze
Demi-glace is the grammar of brown sauces: Espagnole and first-class brown stock reduced slowly, skimmed clean, strained fine, and sharpened with sherry off the heat until the sauce gleams and coats a spoon.
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Lenten Espagnole
Espagnole Maigre proves that abstinence needn't mean a thin sauce: mushroom parings deepen the mirepoix, fish fumet supplies the foundation, and one attentive hour of skimming gives a smooth, clear-bodied result.
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White Roux
Roux blanc is the pale foundation beneath béchamel and velouté: butter and flour cooked just long enough to lose rawness, never long enough to colour. Trust your eyes and nose, not the clock alone.
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Brown Sauce or Espagnole
Espagnole (brown sauce) is the grand lesson in roux, stock, and patient skimming: deep mahogany, clear rather than muddy, and ready to carry the whole family of classical brown sauces.
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Tomato Sauce
Salt pork, carrot, onion, blond roux, white stock, and tomatoes become a deep, mellow Sauce Tomate in the oven, proof that a mother sauce is a method before it is a recipe.
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Béchamel Sauce
Sauce Béchamel (white sauce) teaches the roux: boiling milk, nearly cool white roux, and a hard whisk make an ivory ribbon no lump can survive.
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Pale Roux
Roux blond is flour and clarified butter cooked to the edge of colour, then stopped cold: the ivory foundation of velouté, and a lesson in cooking starch without browning it.
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