[Sca-cooks] white wine and butter sauce
Philip Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Wed Jul 27 20:13:20 PDT 2011
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 21:29 -0500, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> I had posted the message below to the Atlantia list and Baroness Julia
> Windsor replied with:
> "Perhaps a nice white wine and butter sauce.".
>
> So, what is a white wine and butter sauce? Is it just white wine and
> butter whisked together? Is it emulsified? Is it period?
>
> I also stated below that I thought bechamel sauce was post-period. Is
> it?
As I recall, white wine emulsified with butter appears in 17th-century
recipe sources for fish dishes. Bechamel, apart from a non-typical
15th-century basis for a garlic jance, is less typical of period
cookery.
Adamantius
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