Sauces’ cheatsheet

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)

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