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Currants and Sultanas
A flour dredge, a towel closed like a purse, and a vigorous sieve turn sticky currants and sultanas into clean pantry fruit, with every currant checked for the stone that does not belong.
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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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Essences and Flavourings
French pastry flavour begins with extraction, not a heavy hand: vanilla infused gently, citrus zest rubbed fresh, bought essences measured by drops, and fruit juice joined to its matching liqueur.
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Gilding Preparation
La dorure is a thin, even coat of beaten egg, brushed without puddles so pastry bakes to a clear gold; a few drops of water keep a fierce oven from taking it too dark.
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Crème Anglaise
Crème anglaise turns milk, yolks, sugar, and vanilla into a silken sauce that veils the spoon. Stir gently, stop before the boil, and you hold the mother of the sweet-sauce family.
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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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English Sauce
Crème anglaise in its warm sauce-boat register, vanilla-scented, satin-smooth, and just thick enough to cloak a spoon, with arrowroot keeping the yolks calm beside a hot pudding.
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Chocolate Sauce
Sauce au chocolat teaches the discipline of the final enrichment: simmer chocolate, water, and vanilla gently, then add cream and butter away from the heat so the sauce stays dark, supple, and brilliantly glossy.
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Sabayon
Sabayon turns three ingredients into a warm, wine-scented cloud: yolks, powdered sugar, and dry white wine whisked over a bain-marie until pale, firm, and four times their first volume.
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Fruit Sauce
Apricot, red currant, greengage, or mirabelle cooked just until yielding, passed smooth, and balanced into a flowing sauce: the classical lesson in preserving fruit character without drifting into jam.
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Apricot Sauce
Ripe apricots, a fine sieve, and 28-degree syrup become the pastry kitchen’s amber workhorse, boiled and skimmed only until the withdrawn spoon wears a thin, gleaming coat.
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Red-currant Sauce
Sauce aux groseilles rouges proves that a finished preserve can be a sauce foundation: melt it gently, sharpen it with kirsch, and use arrowroot only when the pudding asks for a closer cling.
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Sauce Orange
Sauce Orange proves that sweetness needs discipline: sieved marmalade, apricot sauce at one-third its volume, and enough Curaçao to carry the orange perfume without turning the bowl into a cordial.
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Hazel-nut Sauce
Sauce aux Noisettes turns crème anglaise into a deep hazelnut sauce by two acts alone: toast the nuts until fragrant, then steep them fully before stirring in measured filbert Pralin (No. 2352).
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Greengage or Mirabelle Sauce
Ripe green or golden plums become a clear, satin-smooth sauce with light syrup and kirsch. The lesson is restraint: sieve carefully, skim patiently, and never boil away the fruit's perfume.
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Cherry Sauce
Sauce aux Cerises is an exercise in balance: clear cherry syrup, the same measure of tart red-currant jelly, and kirsch, joined gently into a garnet sauce that pours with a bright, clean finish.
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Raspberry Sauce
Ruby raspberry jelly, barely bound with arrowroot and scented with kirsch at the finish, makes a clear, generous sauce whose elegance depends on stopping before thickness becomes heaviness.
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Strawberry Sauce
Sauce aux fraises makes preserved fruit behave like fresh perfume: clear strawberry jelly, barely bound with arrowroot, then kirsch off the fire, glossy enough for a bavarois, crêpes, or vanilla ice cream.
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Thickened Syrups
Sirops liés teach control in miniature: a clear 15° syrup, enough arrowroot to cling without pastiness, then colour and aroma added off the heat for a thin, gleaming coat on flans and tartlets.
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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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Apricots (Abricots)
Apricots peeled clean and poached just to tenderness, their golden halves held in clear syrup for tarts and cold sweets: a small lesson in texture, restraint, and knowing when fruit is ready.
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The Gravy of Roasts
Jus de rôtis turns a roast pan's browned juices into glossy, concentrated gravy with matching stock and restraint: skim most of the fat, never all, because this is gravy, not consommé.
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Nectarines
Nectarines au Sirop proves the peach method needs no amendment: peel, poach gently, and preserve ripe fruit in a light syrup while its golden flesh still holds.
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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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Sauces and Accompaniments of Cold Sweets
Four cold sauces, one grammar: silken custard, fruit syrup brightened with kirsch, raw strawberry purée, and softly whipped Chantilly, each balanced after chilling so the entremets remains the point.
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