5 mother sauces
Le repetoire de la cuisine - book
Bechemel ⁃ milk based sauce from roux ⁃ Onion studded with clove in milk whilst warming ⁃ Equal butter flour ⁃ Wet sand (roux consistency) ⁃ Always add warm milk, cold will coagulate ⁃ Milk bit by bit ⁃ Coat back of spoon and a line with finger should stay
Add cheese to make (morbet?) sauce Add sweated blended with sauce onions to make Soubise sauce to serve with meat or veg
Can add things like chive or white wine in the base
Veloute
⁃ roux 1:1
⁃ Stock (chicken, light)
⁃ Velvety texture
Blanch herbs, spinach, mustard and turn it into a nice green sauce
Blend it all together
Restaurants add vinegar before serving
Espagnole ⁃ bacon ⁃ Mirepoix (onions first to de glaze) ⁃ Butter ⁃ Flour ⁃ Stock (beef) ⁃ Cook out all the flour and cook down veg
⁃ strain
⁃ Orange juice
⁃ Vinegar / salt
⁃ Shiny sauce
⁃ Serves with duck
Hollandaise ⁃ egg yolks + vinegar and splash of water ⁃ Ban Marie / whisk until frothy, go past that until you get to sabaoine? Phase ⁃ Off heat ⁃ Slowly add clarified butter (melted butter) ⁃ Salt - always add after emulsion ⁃ Lemon juice and pepper
Bearnaise ⁃ shallot ⁃ Tarragon ⁃ ‘Fake quick bearnaise based off Hollandaise
hile both hollandaise and béarnaise are creamy sauces made with egg yolks and butter, the key difference is that béarnaise is essentially a variation of hollandaise, adding distinct flavors like shallots, tarragon, and white wine vinegar, giving it a more herbal and complex taste, while hollandaise is typically just seasoned with lemon juice and pepper, making it milder in comparison; béarnaise is usually served with grilled meats like steak, whereas hollandaise is often used on eggs benedict or vegetables.
Sauce tomato ⁃ diced onion sweat ⁃ Garlic clove ⁃ Chopped tomatoes - tinned tomatoes often better due to seasonality of drag produce in winter ⁃ Cook down
Romesco ⁃ roasted pepper , take off some of the skin ⁃ Chill tomatoes sauce down to avoid it going to flat in colour ⁃ Almonds toasted ⁃ Vinegar ⁃ Blend ⁃