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Salt
Sel épicé is pantry discipline in a jar: dry salt, the exact measure of Spices (No. 181), and a fine sieve give pâtés and galantines even seasoning from first slice to last.
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Sauces and condiments carry a surprising amount of technique. Find dressings, marinades, stocks, gravies, relishes, and finishing sauces with clear purpose.
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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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The Seasoning of Salads
Five dressings, one governing lesson: match fat and acid to the salad itself, from tender lettuce under fresh cream to bitter dandelion leaves glossed with hot bacon fat.
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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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Asparagus with Various Sauces
One vegetable, a whole lesson in sauce families: tender asparagus takes butter and warm emulsions when hot, then vinaigrette or cool mayonnaise when cold, each chosen by temperature and texture.
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Cardons with Various Sauces
Cardons teach the art of matching one vegetable to seven classical sauces: tender ribs, properly drained, dressed in a timbale or arranged on a silver-style drainer with sauce alongside.
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Marinaded Red Cabbages for Hors-d’œuvre
A cold-larder lesson in patience: fine red cabbage salted for two days until crisp-tender, then steeped with vinegar, garlic, peppercorns, and bay for the sharp spoonful boiled beef needs.
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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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Purée d’Oignons, dite Soubise
Scalded onions, dried well and stewed slowly in butter until sweet but still pale, then bound with Béchamel and passed fine: Soubise proves that deep onion flavor does not require browning.
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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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Ordinary or Dry Duxelle
Duxelles ordinaire turns mushroom stalks and parings into a concentrated classical base through one uncompromising act: press them dry, then cook until every drop is gone and only butter-glossed mushroom remains.
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Duxelle for Stuffed Vegetables (Tomatoes, Mushrooms, &c.)
Duxelle for stuffed vegetables is a lesson in control: mushrooms, tomato-rich half-glaze, white wine, and garlic simmered until the spoon leaves a clean path and the filling holds its shape.
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Duxelle for Garnishing Small Pies, Onions, Cucumbers, etc.
Equal measures of dry duxelle and seasoned pork filling make a supple garnish for small pies and hollowed vegetables, with mushroom depth that lightens the meat without loosening its hold.
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Maintenon (Stuffing for Côtelettes à la Maintenon)
Maintenon turns two finished sauces into a dense, mushroom-studded stuffing: reduce them by half, bind them off the heat with yolks, and it will stay where a breaded côtelette needs it.
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Purée de Tomates
A flourless classical purée where pork, carrot, onion, tomato, and a little white stock cook slowly, then pass through a sieve; patient reduction gives the sauce its deep red gloss and body.
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Matignon
Matignon turns a patient, butter-stewed mince of carrot, onion, celery, ham, and herbs into a supple covering that clings to a roast, then Madeira gives the final bright, nutty gloss.
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Mirepoix
Mirepoix turns four humble ingredients into the working foundation of sauces, stocks, marinades, and braises. Match the dice to the cooking time, and every piece gives its flavor at the proper pace.
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Fine or Bordelaise Mirepoix
Carrot, onion, and parsley stalks cut rice-fine, pressed dry, then softened in butter: a make-ahead Bordeaux foundation for crayfish and lobster that proves moisture control is flavor control.
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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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Various Salpicons
A salpicon is precision made generous: clean dice of cooked poultry, game, meat, fish, foie gras, mushrooms, or truffle, joined by just enough compatible sauce to carry every flavor without hiding its shape.
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Various Butters
Three states, one lesson: control butter’s water and texture before it meets the pastry, then soften, work to pommade, or clarify according to the job it must do.
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Vanilla Sugar
Sucre vanillé turns spent vanilla pods into a fine, fragrant pantry sugar through complete drying, a strict two-to-one sugar ratio, and repeated sifting. Waste nothing, keep every bit of perfume.
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Provençale (Stuffing for Côtelettes à la Provençale)
Farce Provençale turns dense Béchamel into a garlic-scented, cheese-rich filling for four cutlets. Reduce until the spatula leaves a clean road, then bind with yolks and finish away from the fire.
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Apple Jelly for Decorating
Gelée de pommes turns russets, water, sugar, and a few drops of carmine into a limpid rosy jelly, firm enough to hold a decoration and clear enough to catch the light.
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