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  1. mother saucenoun

    A basic sauce from which many further sauces can be derived by making minor changes or additions to the ingredients.

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  1. mother sauce

    In French cuisine, the mother sauces (French: sauces mères), also known as grandes sauces in French, are a group of sauces upon which many other sauces – "daughter sauces" or petites sauces – are based. Different sets and classifications of mother sauces have been proposed since at least the early 19th century.The most common list of mother sauces in current use is attributed to chef Auguste Escoffier and based on his seminal cookery book Le guide culinaire: Béchamel sauce: White sauce, based on milk thickened with a white roux. Espagnole sauce: Brown sauce based on a brown stock reduction, and thickened with a brown roux. Ingredients typically include roasted bones, bacon, and tomato (puréed or fresh). Tomato sauce (sometimes Tomate or Tomat): As well as tomatoes, ingredients typically include carrots, onion, garlic, butter, and flour, plus pork belly and veal broth. Velouté sauce: Made by reduction of clear stock (made from un-roasted bones) and thickened with a white roux. Velouté is French for "velvety". Mayonnaise: Mayonnaise is an emulsion of egg yolk and oil, served cold and flavoured with lemon juice, vinegar, and seasoning.The original French editions of Le guide culinaire did not include Hollandaise as a grande sauce, but separately described mayonnaise—a cold emulsion of egg yolk with oil and vinegar—as a mother sauce for cold sauces; this was not included in the English edition. Escoffier did not speak English giving him no way to verify the English translation edition was correct.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mother sauce in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mother sauce in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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