Introduction to Gravies and Sauces - Add Taste to Your Meals Table of Contents Introduction Gravy Classic sauces - The Mother Sauces How to Make the Perfect Sauce Starch Thickened sauces Roux Flour and Butter Thickeners Liquids used in making Sauces Why Season to Taste? B chamel Sauce Veloute Sauce Tomato Sauce Tomato Chutney Tomato Sauce - Bottled Variety French dressing -Vinaigrette Cream Cheese Salad Dressing Spiced Tomato Chutney/Sauce Allemande Sauce Butter-based and Egg Thickened Sauces Sauce Has Separated? Traditional Hollandaise Sauce Blender Mayonnaise A oli sauce How to Make Traditional Gravy Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Why would anybody want to write a book on gravies and sauces, you may ask? After all, you know everything about sauces, there is tomato sauce, soybean sauce and chili sauce readily available in the market.
And gravies are what you make to thicken up a dish and give it more body.
Well, the interesting thing about gravies and sauces are that for millenniums, they have been used in cookery to add body, spice and flavor to otherwise bland dishes.
In fact, the world-famous Worcestershire sauce also managed to be discovered or as you may say invented through sheer chance.
It seems during the time of the British stay in India, one of these sahibs enjoyed a sauce which the locals made.
It had vinegar, molasses, spices and other ingredients added to it.
So when he went back to England, he took the recipe along with him, and asked one of the grocers to make up that sauce and place it in a wooden cask.
The sauce was very strong, when he tasted it.
Being very disappointed in the end result, he went back to India, where he would eat the original sauce to his heart's content, and wonder where he went wrong.
And the sauce kept mellowing in the wooden cask, all this while.
When the Sahib came home on his next leave the grocer asked him what he wanted done with that cask.
You mean you have not thrown it out, man? He said, and asked.
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