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The makings of a French Classic.

Over the last few days I have made a White Mother Sauce ( Sauce Veloute Ordinaire ) from the epic cookbook ‘The Saucier’s Apprentice’ by Raymond Sokolov.    There are three steps to making it, and each step is in it’s own blog post,  This post is simply to join them all together.
Firstly you make a [...]

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Sauce Veloute Ordinaire ( Ordinary Cream Sauce ) commonly just called Veloute is the white mother sauce used to make a lot of french classic sauces ( Sauce Allemande, Sauce Andalouse, Sauce Aurore, and many more ).
It is made from mixing a Fond Blanc Ordinaire ( Ordinary White Stock ) with a blonde roux.   Pretty straight [...]

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Inspired by a recipe posted in a forum I frequent I decided to attempt this classic french dish for Father’s Day.   It’s a fairly lengthy process especially as I decided to mince the meats myself, so I gave myself the whole weekend to do it,  Saturday for Prep and Sunday for assembly and cooking.
All in [...]

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