Home / Library / Mother Sauces Five French Mothers
Mother Sauces Five French Mothers
by Luke McConachy
- Category: Cookbook
- Language: English
- Reading time: about 14 min
About this book
The Mother Sauces: The Five French Mothers and the 49 Sauces Born From Them
Nearly every sauce in a French kitchen comes from one of five, and the five come from a roux, a stock, a tomato or an egg.
This book is the five mothers made properly, the children born from them and a few close relatives built the same way: béchamel and its line, velouté, espagnole and the brown sauces, tomate, hollandaise and the warm emulsions, and mayonnaise and the cold line. Each recipe gives the method, the numbers, what to put it on, and a Notes box on what goes wrong and how to fix it. The last Part is the roux, the stocks with their amounts, reduction, why emulsions split and how to bring them back, and a fridge and freezer table for all 54, its times set against the FDA's storage chart.
A few from inside: Béchamel, the Mother · Cardinal · Albufera · Demi-Glace · Bordelaise · Sauce Tomate, the Mother · Vierge · Hollandaise, the Mother · Béarnaise · Mayonnaise · Mignonette.
Learn five sauces and you never again wonder what a sauce is or how to fix one.
The Classic Edition. Black and white in print, with the plates in color on Kindle. Made for the kitchen bench, every recipe weighed and timed, with an illustrated plate opening every Part. Book Ten of MADE, NOT BOUGHT. My other books are on my Amazon author page.
Free to read in exchange for an honest review, any rating, no strings.
GetBookReviews is a free community where readers discover indie books. This book has no free copy available right now; its author may open a new round later. Meanwhile, you can pick another free book. Sign up free or browse the full library.