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Ordinary or White Consommé
Beef shin, lean beef, and fowl begin in cold water and rise slowly toward a tremble. Skim before the boil, and you learn the quiet discipline that gives every clear French broth its backbone.
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White Veal Stock, and Poultry Stock
Break the veal bones small, then give them eight hours at a bare tremble. This pale, gelatinous fond becomes the quiet foundation beneath velouté, blanquette, and every sauce that must stay light.
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Oriental Sauce
Sauce Orientale concentrates lobster-rich American Sauce with curry, then folds in cream away from the fire: a glossy, gently spiced derivative made for lobster, crayfish, and firm fish.
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Poulette Sauce
An old lesson in sauce families: Sauce Allemande takes mushroom liquor, then butter, lemon, and parsley, becoming a glossy Poulette for sheep's trotters, leeks, cauliflower, and anything needing gentle richness with a bright edge.
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Ravigote Sauce
Sauce ravigote turns a calm velouté lively with white wine, vinegar, shallot butter, and three fresh herbs, a sharp green finish made for boiled poultry and the pale richness of white abats.
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Regency Sauce
Sauce Régence turns a finished velouté into a deep, silken accompaniment through mushroom, truffle, and concentrated glaze, proving that gentle reduction, not ornament, gives a derivative sauce its authority.
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Soubise Sauce
Onions softened without colour, bound with Béchamel, strained, and mounted with cream and butter: Sauce Soubise proves that the slow stew, not sweetness or browning, gives this classical sauce its quiet depth.
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Soubise Sauce with Rice
Sauce Soubise au Riz turns blanched onions, Carolina rice, white consommé, cream, and butter into a satin-thick purée: gentle cooking and a fine sieve make it both sauce and generous garnish.
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Soubise Sauce Tomatée
Soubise Sauce Tomatée teaches the derivative-sauce system in one stroke: three parts silky onion soubise, one part deeply red tomato purée, joined gently so sweetness, acidity, and colour remain in balance.
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Suprême Sauce
The white, delicate crown of the velouté family: clear poultry stock and mushroom liquor reduced, poultry velouté stirred in, cream added little by little, and butter mounted at the last moment for a quiet gloss.
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Venetian Sauce
Sauce Vénitienne turns disciplined reduction into brightness: shallot, white wine, and tarragon vinegar sharpen a silken base, while herb juice and fresh leaves give poached fish its vivid green finish.
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Villeroy Sauce
Sauce Villeroy takes finished Allemande, truffle essence, and ham essence to a dense, savory gloss that grips a morsel, sets cleanly, and survives crumbing and frying.
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Villeroy Soubisée Sauce
A Villeroy sauce reduced beyond pouring consistency, with onion-rich Soubise for body and black truffle when the morsel asks for it, ready to cloak, set, take crumbs, and meet the frying pan.
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White Fish Stock
Fumet de poisson blanc turns sole or whiting bones, blanched onion, parsley, lemon, and wine into a pale, delicate foundation in twenty minutes. Cook it longer and you cook the savour straight out.
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Villeroy Tomatée Sauce
Tomato deepens the classical Villeroy coating without loosening its grip: reduce patiently until the sauce clings in a thick, even mantle, ready for breading and frying à la Villeroy.
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White Wine Sauce
Sauce au Vin Blanc takes three classical roads to the same ivory gloss: Velouté reduced with fumet and mounted with butter, or two Hollandaise-style emulsions built on fish essence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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