Based on “La cuisine en dix minutes (French cooking in ten minutes or adapting to the rhythm of modern life [1930])” by Edouard de Pomiane
INGREDIENTS | |||||||||||||||||||||
SAUCE | BASE SAUCE | butter | flour | water | salt | heavy cream | meat extract | tomato paste | egg yolks | milk | white pepper | Swiss or Gruyère cheese | curry powder | onion | vinegar | pickles | hot Dijon mustard | salad oil | lemon juice | shallot | SERVED WITH |
WHITE | |||||||||||||||||||||
White | +Ts | -Ts | ½ cup cold | q.s. | |||||||||||||||||
Normandy | White | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | 4 Ts | boiled fish | ||||||||||||||
Supreme | Normandy | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | few drops | fish, fried veal cutlets, white meat | |||||||||||||
Aurora | Normandy | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | tiny bit | mussels | |||||||||||||
Poulette | White | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | few drops | 2 | lamb’s trotters (feet) | |||||||||||||
Béchamel | improved White | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | ½ cup cold | little | |||||||||||||||
Mornay | Béchamel | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | 2 +Ts | boiled vegetables | |||||||||||||||
Curry | Béchamel | ½ cup cold | little | ½ ts | hard-boiled eggs, five-minutes eggs | ||||||||||||||||
Piquant | |||||||||||||||||||||
BROWN | |||||||||||||||||||||
roux | Ts | Ts | small or ½ | ||||||||||||||||||
Piquant | roux | u.s. | u.s. | ½ cup cold | few drops | u.s. | ts | 3 small vinegar | pork chops | ||||||||||||
Mustard | Piquant | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | ts | fried herring | ||||||||||||
Robert | Mustard | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | 2 ts | u.s. | u.s. | u.s. | veal, pork | |||||||||||
EGGS’BASED | |||||||||||||||||||||
Mayonnaise | q.s. | 1 | few drops | ??? | cold roast beef, cold meet | ||||||||||||||||
Hollandaise | 8 Ts | ts cold | q.s. | 2 | [few drops] | boiled fish, canned asparagus | |||||||||||||||
Béarnaise | Hollandaise | ¼ lb. stick | Ts cold | q.s. | 2 | 2 Ts | 1 | minute steak, broiled meat | |||||||||||||
Tomato | Ts | q.s. hot | q.s. | Ts |
Abbreviations | |
+ | heaping |
– | scant |
[…] | optional |
Ts | table spoon |
ts | tea spoon |
u.s. | ut supra (as above) |
q.s. | quantum satis or quantum sufficit (quantity to taste, e.g. salt to taste) |