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Month: December 2024

Traveler’s Culinary Adventure – Pizza Southern Style @ Derby City Pizza

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Notes from the Garden. Scheme of Work: Orchestrating Kitchen Tasks

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Notes from the Garden, Mise en Place for sauce Béchamel

Notes from the Garden, Mise en Place for sauce Béchamel

The Kitchen is set. Startup is done and Mise en Place underway. Next on the list [while Pommes Marquise is getting golden brown] – is the Béchamel.

Bechamel

Chef G
One of five basic sauces
Course Sauce
Cuisine French

Equipment

  • Medium Sauce Pan
  • whisk – preferred a balloon whisk
  • measuring cups and spoons
  • wooden spoon
  • ladle (When tempering the milk gradually)

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Ounce Margarine or unsalted butter
  • 1/2 Pint Milk preferably Whole milk
  • 1 Ounce Flour all purpose
  • 1 Studded onion studded with whole clove

Instructions
 

Preliminary Step:

  • Warm the milk in a separate sauce pan until warm, but not boiling. Warm integrates more smoothly into the roux
  • Measure the ingredients

Cooking Process:

  • Melt Butter: place the sauce pan over medium heat and ensure the butter melts evenly – however not browned.
  • Make the Roux: Have the flour ready to fold into the butter. fold in slowly ans stir with the wooden spoon. Keep the roux blond.
  • Gradually ladle the warm milk into the roux.
  • Continue to heat the sauce up to a small simmer and whisk. Cook under low heat for a bit – nape' the sauce over the back of the wooden spoon. the sauce at this point should hold a line.
  • remove from heat and place in bain-marie for service.
Keyword Sauces
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