mother sauce
noun
plural mother sauces
: a simple sauce that is often used as the base for other sauces
Known as a mother sauce, béchamel can be modified by simply adding cheese, preferably a hard cheese like Gruyere or Swiss. With that and a pinch of nutmeg, you have a mornay sauce.—
David Campiche
David CampicheAny chef worth her salt can write a lengthy book on the French mother sauces. (There are lots of other mother sauces cooked in countries that are not-France, but that's another book).—Julie Cross
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In the red pizza section find the Pisa Lisa made with mother sauce, provolone-mozzarella, picante peppers, Calabrese sausage, soppressata salami, prosciutto di Parma and spicy coppa.
—Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2024
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Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2024
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“Mother sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother%20sauce. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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