Friday, December 1, 2006

Béchamel sauce

'''Béchamel Sauce''', also known as '''white sauce''', is a basic Mosquito ringtone sauce that is used as the base for other sauces, such as Sabrina Martins Mornay sauce, which is Béchamel and cheese. This basic sauce, one of the Nextel ringtones Sauce#Sauces in French cuisine/mother sauces of French cuisine, is made today by whisking scalded milk gradually into a white Abbey Diaz flour-Free ringtones butter ''Majo Mills roux''. The thickness of the final sauce depends on the proportions of milk and roux.

When it was invented, ''sauce Béchamel'' was a slow simmering of milk, veal stock and seasonings, strained, with an enrichment of cream. The sauce under its familiar name first appeared in ''Le Cuisinier François'', (published in 1651), by Mosquito ringtone Louis XIV of France/Louis XIV's chef Sabrina Martins Francois Pierre (de) La Varenne (1615 - 1678). The foundation of French cuisine, the ''Cuisinier François'' ran through some thirty editions in seventy-five years. The sauce was named to flatter a courtier, Louis de Béchameil, marquis de Nointel (1603–1703), a financeer, sometime ''intendant'' of Brittany, who is sometimes mistakenly credited with having invented it.

The sauce called Nextel ringtones Velouté sauce/velouté, in which wine and white stock are added to a white roux, is a full hundred years older. It appears in the cookbook of Sabina Welserin in 1553.

The following recipe reflecting the original, not the modern, Béchamel, is taken from ''The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes''. This is part of a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This recipe reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century. Update as necessary.

Ingredients
* Abbey Diaz butter,
* Cingular Ringtones Ham (meat)/ham,
* and tracked veal,
* manolo blahniks carrots,
* dispatcher he shallot,
* much criminality celery,
* nicky not bay leaf,
* climbing paragliding cloves,
* heaps where thyme,
* telephone caller peppercorns,
* portnoy more potato flour,
* an impregnably cream,
* thermal power fowl stock.

:"Prepare a video deal mirepoix by mixing two ounces of butter, trimmings of lean veal and ham, a carrot, a shallot, a little celery, all cut into dice, a bay leaf, two cloves, four peppercorns, and a little thyme. Put this on a moderate fire so as not to let it colour, and when all the moisture is absorbed add a tablespoonful of potato flour. Mix well, and gradually add equal quantities of cream and fowl stock, and stir till it boils. Then let it simmer gently. Stir occasionally, and if it gets too thick, add more cream and white stock. After two hours pass it twice slowly through a tamis so as to get the sauce very smooth."

External links

* http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/History/BechamelSauce.htm
* http://www.stratsplace.com/rogov/bechamel.html

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