Name: Sauce Albufera
Ingredients: Supreme Sauce; 4 tablespoons dissolved pale meat glaze per quart of sauce

Sauce Albufera

A sauce made by adding pale meat glaze to Supreme Sauce, resulting in an ivory-white tint, served with poultry and poached sweetbread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients

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Sauce Albufera

Ingredients

Supreme Sauce
4 tablespoons dissolved pale meat glaze per quart of sauce

Directions

Add 4 tablespoons of dissolved pale meat glaze to each quart of Supreme Sauce.
Stir until the sauce has an ivory-white tint.
Serve with poultry and poached sweetbread.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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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.

Sauce + meattop 22% of all pairs

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Cooked together2,167 recipes

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What each ingredient does

Supreme sauce: Serves as the creamy base that the glaze enriches and lightens in color.
Pale meat glaze: Adds savory depth and body to the sauce, giving it a rich, glossy finish.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.