Archive for January 31st, 2010
A [Very] Short History of Sauce Allemande
Marie Antonin Carême (author of the encyclopedic, L’Art de la Cuisine Française, 1834) categorized all sauces as belonging to one of the five “Mother Sauces“, Sauce Allemande is from velouté sauce, a blond sauce of veal (or chicken) stock thickened with a roux of butter and flour. Later on, Escoffier (A Complete Guide to Modern [...]
Escoffier renamed it Sauce Blo…
Escoffier renamed it Sauce Blonde after World War I.
For comparison – a modern Sauc…
For comparison – a modern Sauce Allemand from Escoffier http://bit.ly/ac0FTE
Poulet à L’Allemand – German Chicken from Le Cuisiner Gascon, 1747
Le Cuisinier Gascon, Amsterdam (probably a false imprint for Paris), 1740 is famous for its important early treatment of foie gras, and for the outlandish names of many of its recipes. My copy of Gascon is the 1747 Nouvelle edition with the added letter to an English Pastry chef. This recipe isn’t outlandish though (if [...]
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