Sauce Suprême
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 litre Velouté de volaille
- 1 litre white poultry stock (fonds blanc de volaille)
- 1 decilitre mushroom cooking liquor
- 2 and a half decilitres excellent cream
- 1 decilitre cream
- 80 grammes butter of the very first quality
Instructions
- Reduce the white poultry stock and the mushroom cooking liquor together by three quarters.
- Add the Velouté de volaille and continue the reduction over a full fire, stirring with the spatula, adding the 2 and a half decilitres of cream to the Velouté in small parts as you go.
- Carry this reduction of Velouté and cream to one third, so as to arrive at the quantity of sauce indicated.
- Pass through the étamine.
- Complete the sauce, stirring it, with 1 decilitre of cream and 80 grammes of butter of the very first quality.