Sauces & Stocks

Sauces in French cuisine date back to the Middle Ages. There were many hundreds of sauces in the culinary repertoire. In cuisine classique (roughly from the end of the 19th century until the advent of nouvelle cuisine in the 1980s), sauces were a major defining characteristic of French cuisine and numbers of them are being forgotten in today’s cuisine.

List of Classic French Dressings

Sauces & Stocks

French dressings, or vinaigrette sauces (as we call them in France), are a basic condiment needed to prepare French salads. The sauces are made with a simple combination of salt, pepper, vinegar and an oil. Sometimes fresh shallots, garlic, herbs, or honey is added. Instructions are always as follows: put...

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Quick & Easy Brown Chicken Stock

Cooking Time: 60

Sauces & Stocks

French cuisine

A quick and easy brown chicken stock recipe that you can use for multiple French poultry base dishes sauce and stews. this technique uses the classic French technique where water is replace with off the shelf brown stock to supercharge the flavor and reduce the cooking time to 30 minutes

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May 13, 2017

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Aromatic White Chicken Stock From Scratch

Cooking Time: 65

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French cuisine

This delicate, aromatic chicken stock is used in the preparations of many dishes. It may be frozen in small containers for future use. this chicken stock is ideal when you are looking at recycling chicken bones when making a recipe using a deboned chicken.

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May 13, 2017

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How to make a mayonnaise sauce

Cooking Time: 10

Sauces & Stocks

French cuisine

How to make a mayonnaise sauce: a delicious sauce that goes perfectly with cold meats, sandwiches, boiled eggs, slaw and more. the french mayonnaise can be use as a base for other sauces like the cocktail sauce and all kind of other flavored mayonnaise such as the Aioli style mayonnaise....

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May 4, 2017

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Bechamel Sauce

Cooking Time: 25

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French cuisine

This Bechamel sauce (white sauce) is perfect for all kind of everyday use for things like pasta and vegetable bakes, lasagnas, moussaka, and even more complex things recipe like souffle. The Bechamel Sauce which is commonly known as “white Sauce”, is one of the 5 French Mother sauces that every...

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February 22, 2017

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How to make a Bearnaise sauce

Cooking Time: 15

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French cuisine

Bearnaise sauce is a sauce made of clarified butter emulsified in egg yolks and white wine vinegar and flavored with herbs. It is considered to be a “child” of the mother Hollandaise sauce, one of the five mother sauces in the French haute cuisine repertoire. The difference is only in...

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February 20, 2017

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