[Sca-cooks] Winter comfort food...

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Capt Elias personified "Mother" sauces in a rather interesting peek inside
his Freudian brain thusly:

I dunno...
Here's how I am seeing them:

Bechamel Sauce
Comforting, easy, nurturing - the "June Cleaver" mother sauce

Veloute Sauce
Healing, nursing, wholesome, filling - the "Jewish Grandmother"
mother sauce

Espagnole Sauce
moody, imperative, can make you popular (or completely embarass
you in front of your friends)  - The "Soccer Mom" mother sauce

	>To which Adamantius added: (espagnole and its variants tend to strike me
more as some kind of secret mistress than as a mother, dark, mysterious, and
just a bit intimidating)<

Hollandaise Sauce
Rich, Fragile, flighty, but will always impress your friends -
The "new Stepmother you did not want to like but your friends
thought was cool, and you do too" mother sauce

Tomato Sauce
Tart, snappish, but resourceful and throughly reliable - the "Den
Mother" mother sauce



Now, without looking at either of those while coming up with my own take, I
actually hit on many of the same ideas.  This was disturbingly close to
auto-psychoanalysis.
Christianna


Bechamel Sauce - understated, deceptively simple, the genesis of untold
possibilities


Veloute Sauce - cloying, enrobing, clinging, left her stamp on you


Espagnole Sauce -  strong, protective, bullish, dynamic


Hollandaise Sauce - exciting, rich, many different faces


Tomato Sauce - sweetness and despair, scold, opposites attract, joys and
sorrows of life