Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

The Small Compound Sauces - Hot English Sauces

Updated July 16, 2026

The small English sauces Escoffier drew into the classical French repertoire: fruit purées for the festive roast bird, roux-and-cream sauces for boiled fish and poultry, Albert and Reform for the beef and mutton. Each rests on one honest foundation, a butter sauce, a white roux, a fruit purée, a demi-glace, and each carries the single move that decides it. C'est la même grammaire.

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Cranberry Sauce - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Cranberry Sauce

French sieve-work gives the holiday table its sharpest foil: cranberries cooked soft, pressed smooth, loosened cautiously with their own liquor, and sweetened only until their bright tartness stands beside roast turkey.

Bread Sauce - Chef Juliette

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Bread Sauce

Sauce au pain turns milk, fresh crumb, butter, and cream into an ivory velvet for roast fowl. The whole lesson is timing: draw the clove-studded onion before its perfume becomes the sauce.

Celery Sauce - Chef Juliette

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Celery Sauce

Sauce au Céleri turns consommé-poached celery hearts into a silken purée, then balances it measure for measure with cream sauce, a quiet classical companion for boiled or braised poultry.

Reform Sauce - Chef Juliette

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Reform Sauce

Sauce Réforme is the composed sauce of the Reform Club: glossy half-glaze and sharp poivrade carrying a short, fine julienne of tongue, truffle, mushroom, gherkin, and egg white over mutton cutlets.

Apple Sauce - Chef Juliette

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Apple Sauce

Sauce aux pommes turns four plain ingredients into a softly cinnamon-scented companion for roast duck, goose, or hare. Covered gentle cooking is the whole technique: let the apples slump in their juices, then whisk.

PARSLEY SAUCE - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

PARSLEY SAUCE

Sauce au Persil teaches the discipline of finishing: warm egg-and-cream butter sauce, parsley chopped at the last moment, and no boiling, so the texture stays silken and the green remains alive.

Horse-radish or Albert Sauce - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Horse-radish or Albert Sauce

Sauce Albert turns the bite of fresh horseradish into a pale, glossy companion for roast beef, using consommé, butter sauce, cream, and a careful yolk liaison before mustard brings back the fire.

Egg Sauce with Melted Butter - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Egg Sauce with Melted Butter

A warm classical sauce of lemon-bright butter, bold cubes of hot hard-boiled egg, and scalded parsley, made in one pan and ready to spoon generously over poached fish or vegetables.

Scotch Egg Sauce - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Scotch Egg Sauce

Sauce aux Œufs à l’Écossaise turns a properly cooked white roux, hot milk, nutmeg, and warm diced egg into the quiet classical partner for boiled haddock, cod, and salt cod.

Fennel Sauce - Chef Juliette

Chef Juliette

Fennel Sauce

A classical derivative in one clean gesture: scald the fennel, fold it into Butter Sauce (No. 66), and guard the gentle heat so mackerel meets a glossy sauce, never a broken one.

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