Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓
Round the Table
Ingredients
Directions
viously made a roux, which is done by melting a piece of butter and adding to it a handful of flour, stirring on the fire until the flour begins to brown. Let your sauce give a boil or two, add any condiment according to taste, and the sauce is made. Truffles or mushrooms, or both, may be added with advantage in the first part of the process.
The addition of the juice of a lemon, and a glass of white wine, at the second stage of the proceedings, will produce what is called Mirepoix, a very good sauce for all hashes or fricassees of pigeons, fowls, ducks, and birds iu general.
White Sauce or Veloute, is made much in the same way as Espagnole, only, as it is a white sauce, all ingre- dients tending to give it a colour, such as sue colorant, should be excluded, and in the first part of the process the meat and vegetables should not be browned at all ; also in making the roux the flour should not be allowed to brown, and mushrooms, at least, are dc rigueur for this sauce.
By stirring into your veloute two or three yolks of eggs beaten up with a little hot water, and adding a pat of butter, with a little finely-powdered nutmeg, you will have a Sauce Allemande.
Sauce Supreme is nothing else (according to no less an authority than Careme) but some sauce Allemande, to which, at the moment of serving, a pat of fresh butter and a couple of tablespoonfuls of consomme, or clear gravy or stock have been added.
The Bechamel, or rather one kind of Bechamel, is made by adding half a pint of cream to a well made veloute.
I will now give the recipe for a sauce which I re- commend to those who love the flesh of that useful animal the pig. Having procured the livers of any kind of poultry, or of rabbits, or of hares, scald and proceed to mince them as fine as you can. Incorporate
Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Cream | 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy | 51 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together41,516 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
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Flour + nutmegtop 8% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together18,623 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together124,287 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
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Cream + nutmegtop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7,920 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
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Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together106,462 recipes
Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
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