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Allrecipes | Cook's Encyclopedia | sauce |
 | | In the most basic terms, a sauce is a thickened, flavored liquid designed to accompany food in order to enhance and bring out its flavor. |
 | | In the days before refrigeration, however, sauces were more often used to smother the taste of foods that had begun to go bad. |
 | | It was the 19th-century French chef Antonin Carême who evolved an intricate methodology by which hundreds of sauces were classified under one of five "mother sauces." Those are: ESPAGNOLE (brown stock-based), VELOUTÉ (light stock-based), BÉCHAMEL (basic white sauce), HOLLANDAISE and MAYONNAISE (EMULSIFIED sauces) and VINAIGRETTE (oil-and-vinegar combinations). |
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