The History And Use Of The Basic Sauces

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...of the Basic Sauces : This 5 paper focuses on the origin of the mother sauces and their uses. Sauces include Espagnole, Tomato, Hollandaise, Veloute, and Demi-glace. Bibliography lists 7 sources. SA137sce.rtf

When children put ketchup on a perfectly cooked steak, parents cringe. But children notoriously douse their delicious meals with a sauce of some kind. Why? Perhaps it is to drown out the flavor of the meals that parents relish but children could do without. But the use of sauce in such a manner is nothing new. In fact, sauces originated in Ancient Rome in order to camouflage bad tastes in food that was less than perfect (Gluck 79). Fast forward to the Middle Ages and the use of the sauce changed a bit, or at least more attention seemed to be paid to flavor. A medieval peasant for example might liven up cereals with sauces made from the most peppery of plants which were growing wild (Spencer 3). In northern Europe, mustard...

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