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Mayonnaise Sauce
Sauce Mayonnaise teaches the cold emulsion: vinegar into yolks, then room-temperature oil in a patient thread, finished with lemon and boiling water so it stays supple, coherent, and ready for the table.
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Cleared Mayonnaise Sauce
Mayonnaise collée is the cold-coating lesson: barely fluid aspic whisked into true mayonnaise, then poured at once so chilled fish or lobster wears a smooth ivory film that sets cleanly.
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Whisked Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise fouettée is the cold-sauce lesson in timing: mayonnaise and liquid aspic, sharpened with tarragon vinegar and horseradish, whisked over ice until airy, glossy, and still loose enough to cloak vegetables.
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Ravigote Sauce, or Vinaigrette
Sauce ravigote proves that a vinaigrette is built by proportion, not guesswork: three parts oil, one part vinegar, capers and five fresh herbs, stirred again just before it meets calf’s head or trotters.
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Various Essences
Four unsalted aromatic essences, mushroom, morel, celery, and truffle, reduced for exact finishing. Their first lesson is refusal: they perfume a sound fond, but cannot repair one built without savour.
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Remoulade Sauce
Rémoulade teaches the cold emulsion family: keep its mayonnaise firm, press every salty garnish dry, then sharpen it with mustard, herbs, and anchovy for lobster, poultry, or cold roast.
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Green Sauce
Sauce verte is an emulsion lesson in one bowl: begin with mayonnaise stiffer than you want, then add vivid herb juice in the classical three-to-one proportion for cold fish and shellfish.
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Vincent Sauce
Sauce Vincent turns eight briefly blanched herbs, hard-boiled yolks, and stiff Mayonnaise into a cool green emulsion. Two minutes in boiling water preserves its color, and not a second longer.
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Cambridge Sauce
A cold sauce with real backbone: hard-boiled yolks, anchovy, capers, mustard, and garden herbs worked with oil until satin-smooth, ready for sliced beef, veal, lamb, ham, or tongue.
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Cumberland Sauce
Sauce Cumberland turns red-currant jelly and port into a cold, garnet-bright companion for venison, sharpened with scalded citrus julienne, mustard, ginger, and cayenne, with sweetness held firmly in check.
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Gloucester Sauce
Sauce Gloucester turns one cold emulsion into another: thick mayonnaise softened with lemoned sour cream, then sharpened by fennel and Worcester sauce, smooth enough to spoon over cold meats but never runny.
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Mint Sauce
Mint cut as fine as green thread, then steeped with vinegar, white cassonade, and water until sharpness turns fragrant. No pan, no boiling, just a clean knife and time beside the lamb.
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Oxford Sauce
Sauce Oxford is Cumberland's quieter twin: red-currant jelly and port sharpened with citrus, mustard, ginger, and cayenne, its zest rasped fine so the sauce stays smooth beside cold venison and other game.
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Horse-radish Sauce
Fresh horseradish, mustard, vinegar, cream, and milk-soaked crumb meet in a cold, spoonable sauce whose bite stays bright beside boiled or roasted beef at the holiday table.
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Bercy Butter
Beurre Bercy is the warm compound butter that teaches restraint: white wine and shallots reduced hard, then worked with creamed butter, parsley, and tender marrow until loose and glossy, never melted through.
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Various Glazes
Stock reduced until its flavor, gelatin, and body become one glossy spoonful: glaze for burnishing a roast, strengthening a sauce, or becoming the sauce itself with cream or cold butter.
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Chivry or Ravigote Butter
Beurre de Chivry teaches the discipline behind every green finishing butter: blanch fast, cool hard, wring completely dry, then marry the herb purée to butter without dulling its color.
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Châteaubriand Butter
Beurre Châteaubriand turns a firm white-wine reduction and veal gravy into a glossy sauce with herb butter and tarragon, succeeding only when the pan leaves the fire.
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Colbert Butter
Beurre Colbert turns one cool spoonful of maître d’hôtel butter, pale meat glaze, and tarragon into the finishing sauce for hot fish, with temperature control doing all the work.
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Red Colouring Butter
Crustacean shells, dried brittle and ground fine, surrender their coral-red pigment to butter in a gentle bain-marie, making a concentrated finishing fat that colours classical sauces without hiding their character.
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Green Colouring Butter
Spinach gives up its pure green in a gentle bain-marie, then meets half its weight in butter: a concentrated classical tint for sauces, made honestly from leaves rather than a bottle.
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Various Cullises
Coulis Variés de Crustacés concentrates shellfish into a coral-ivory ribbon, pounded with cream, twice sieved, and folded into a finished fish sauce at the last possible moment.
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Shrimp Butter
Beurre de crevettes turns the shrimp bowl’s scraps into coral silk: equal weights of cooked remains and real butter, ground fine and passed twice through the sieve until no shell grit survives.
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Shallot Butter
Beurre d'échalote teaches restraint: scald away the shallot's raw bite, press out every drop of water, then bind its perfume into real butter for classical sauces that finish cleanly and gleam.
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