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Hot Tartar Sauce

A quick sauce made by heating white sauce with broth or milk and adding tartar sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,759 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Hot Tartar Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sauce

  1. In a small saucepan, combine the white sauce and broth or milk.

  2. Boil for a few minutes.

  3. Add the tartar sauce and stir quickly with a wooden spoon until hot, but do not let it boil.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately.

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.

  1. Sauce + milktop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

White sauce
Forms the creamy base that gives the sauce body and smooth texture.
Broth or milk
Thins the white sauce to a pourable consistency while adding moisture.
Tartar sauce
Adds the tangy, acidic and savory flavor that defines the sauce.

The step that matters

Adding the tartar sauce without boiling. Tartar sauce is an emulsion of egg and oil that can split or turn oily when overheated. Stirring quickly over gentle heat warms it through while keeping it smooth.

“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.

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