Sauce Chaud-froid brune (Brown Chaud-froid Sauce)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Three quarters of a litre sauce Demi-glace
- 1 décilitre truffle essence
- 6 to 7 décilitres gelée
- 1 half-décilitre Madeira or Port
Instructions
- Add the truffle essence to the sauce Demi-glace.
- Reduce over a full fire without leaving the sauce, adding the gelée in small portions; the total reduction should be a good third.
- Check the seasoning, and check that the sauce has the consistency needed for its use.
- Finish with the half-décilitre of Madeira or Port.
- Pass through the muslin.
- Stir the sauce carefully until it has cooled to the point suitable for coating the elements of the Chaud-froid.