sauce

In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish. Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin salsa, meaning salted. Possibly the oldest recorded European sauce is garum, the fish sauce used by the Ancient Greeks; while doubanjiang, the Chinese soy bean paste is mentioned in Rites of Zhou in the 3rd century BC.
Sauces need a liquid component. Sauces are an essential element in cuisines all over the world.
Sauces may be used for sweet or savory dishes. They may be prepared and served cold, like mayonnaise, prepared cold but served lukewarm like pesto, cooked and served warm like bechamel or cooked and served cold like apple sauce. They may be freshly prepared by the cook, especially in restaurants, but today many sauces are sold premade and packaged like Worcestershire sauce, HP Sauce, soy sauce or ketchup. Sauces for salad are called salad dressing. Sauces made by deglazing a pan are called pan sauces.
A chef who specializes in making sauces is called a saucier.

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  1. C

    Recipe Carolina Barbecue Sauce

    Carolina Barbecue Sauce "Carolina-style barbecue is traditionally on the sour side. If you want a sweeter sauce, add 1/2 cup brown sugar and a pinch of ground mace." 1/2 cup red-wine vinegar 2 TB. peanut oil 1/4 cup Dijon mustard 2 TB. Worcestershire sauce 1 TB sweet Paprika 1/4 tsp. Tabasco...
  2. Morning Glory

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  3. C

    Recipe Dirty Shrimp in Butter-Beer Sauce

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  4. C

    Recipe Paprika Sauce

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  5. CraigC

    Recipe Mustard Sauce For Crab

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  6. epicuric

    Recipe Miso caramel sauce

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  7. Yorky

    Recipe Parsley Sauce

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  8. rascal

    Worcester sauce.......

    do you use a lot of it. I use about between 5 to 10 litres a year. It seems you either love it or loath it. I have a Texan friend who detests it and calls it worst ever sauce,lol. I use it in stews casseroles sausage rolls sauces all sorts of things. There's a you tube article about how it came...
  9. CraigC

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  10. CraigC

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  11. murphyscreek

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  12. Morning Glory

    Ideas for (cooked) mustard sauce

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  13. Morning Glory

    Worcestershire Sauce

    One of the (possibly few) British sauces which are known around the world. Do you use Worcestershire Sauce? Tell us how you use it in your cooking. *http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/mcraSW4BRJyBTtOMbcb6Tw
  14. rascal

    How would you like your steak sir?

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  15. epicuric

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  16. MicheleJ

    Making Cooking Sauces - Different Gourmet Sauce Bases

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  17. The Late Night Gourmet

    How important are sauces to you?

    I never really thought about it before, but I realize now that sauces are important to me. I'm not just talking about what you put on pasta...that's to be expected. But, when I make my breakfast sandwich or burrito in the morning, I always make a sauce with it. Always. I sometimes try to add...
  18. CraigC

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  19. Yorky

    White Onion Sauce?

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  20. epicuric

    Recipe Moroccan Spiced Fish with Fennel, Leek and cream sauce

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