mushroom sauce
{{short description|White or brown sauce prepared with mushrooms}}
Mushroom sauce is a white or brown sauce prepared using mushrooms as its primary ingredient. It can be prepared in different styles using various ingredients, and is used to top a variety of foods.
Overview
File:Scottish mince pie and mushroom sauce.jpg
In cooking, mushroom sauce is sauce with mushrooms as the primary ingredient. Often cream-based,{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m6jzhdcqSsAC&pg=PA32 | title=One Hundred Mushroom Receipts | publisher=Fred Kelso | author=Sargeant, Kate | pages=32}} it can be served with veal, chicken and poultry, pasta, and other foods such as vegetables.{{cite book | last=Truman | first=M. | last2=Parragon | first2=Incorporated | title=Pasta | publisher=Parragon, Incorporated | series=Easy Meals | year=2003 | isbn=978-1-4054-1511-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ikyF7emtH8C | accessdate=March 7, 2017}}{{cite book | last=Urvater | first=M. | title=Monday to Friday Pasta | publisher=Workman Pub. | series=Monday-To-Friday Series | year=1995 | isbn=978-1-56305-347-4 | url=https://archive.org/details/mondaytofridaypa00urva | url-access=registration | accessdate=March 7, 2017 | page=pt55}}{{cite book | last=Jones | first=M.H. | title=The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes, Free of All Common Food Allergens: Wheat-free, Milk-free, Egg-free, Corn-free, Sugar-free, Yeast-free | publisher=Rodale Books | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-57954-276-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RhfT6ibvL-MC&pg=PA170 | accessdate=March 7, 2017 | page=170}}{{cite book | title=The household encyclopedia | year=1859 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQMUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA525 | page=525}} Some sources also suggest pairing mushroom sauce with fish.{{cite book|author=Alice L. McLean|title=Cooking in America, 1840-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FqWbumBZ0p0C&pg=PA91|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-33574-7|page=91}}
It is made with mushrooms, butter, cream or olive oil, white wine (some variations may use a mellow red wine) and pepper with a wide variety of variations possible with additional ingredients such as shallot, garlic, lemon juice, flour (to thicken the sauce), chicken stock, saffron, basil, parsley, or other herbs.{{cite book | last=Lemcke | first=G.K. | last2=Lemcke | first2=G. | title=European and American cuisine | publisher=D. Appleton and company | year=1914 | url=https://archive.org/details/europeanandamer00lemcgoog | accessdate=March 7, 2017 | page=[https://archive.org/details/europeanandamer00lemcgoog/page/n107 96]}} It is a variety of allemande sauce.
Mushroom sauce can also be prepared as a brown sauce.{{cite book | last=Acton | first=E. | title=Modern cookery, for private families, reduced to a system of easy practice, in a series of carefully tested receipts ... Newly revised and much enlarged edition. Copiously illustrated | publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer | year=1868 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bURgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR18 | accessdate=March 7, 2017 | page=18}}{{cite book | last=Brown | first=E.E. | last2=Simpkins | first2=J.D. | title=The Complete Tassajara Cookbook: Recipes, Techniques, and Reflections from the Famed Zen Kitchen | publisher=Shambhala | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-59030-672-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bp6xVO7Of-EC&pg=PA334 | accessdate=March 7, 2017 | page=334}} Canned mushrooms can be used to prepare the sauce.{{cite book | last=(Firm) | first=Better Homes and Gardens Books | title=New Cook Book: 1953 Classic Edition | publisher=Meredith Books | series=Better Homes & Gardens | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-696-22212-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gpvym9lYvNkC&pg=PA348 | page=348}}
For vegan dishes, cream can be replaced with ground almonds, mixed with water and evaporated until needed consistency.{{Cn|date=February 2025}}
History
Mushroom sauces have been cooked for hundreds of years. An 1864 cookbook includes two recipes, one sauce tournee and one a brown gravy.Eliza Acton , Modern cookery for private families: reduced to a system of easy practice, in a series of carefully tested receipts, in which the principles of Baron Liebig and other eminent writers have been as much as possible applied and explained (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864), p. 123. Found at [https://archive.org/details/moderncookeryfo01actogoog/page/n192 Internet Archive]. Accessed June 15, 2011.
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a well-known steak lover, was reportedly quite fond of mushroom sauce.{{cite news|author=Kenneth Gilmore|author2=Douglas Larsen|title=Mushroom Sauce Recipe for Steak is Secret Even to President|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=REEaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OSMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2938,3946075&dq=mushroom-sauce&hl=en|accessdate=15 June 2011|newspaper=The Times-News|date=28 March 1957}}
Gallery
File:Filet mignon with mushroom-cream sauce.jpg|Filet mignon with mushroom-cream sauce
File:Semmelknödel Pilzsosse.JPG|Semmelknödel with mushroom sauce
File:Grilled pork with mushroom sauce.jpg|Grilled pork with mushroom sauce
File:Chanterelle sauce served with steamed pork.jpg|Chanterelle sauce served with steamed pork
File:Rumpsteak med morkelsauce (4623442059).jpg|Rump steak in a morel mushroom sauce
See also
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References
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External links
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- Wolfgang Puck's [http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/wolfgang-puck/pasta-with-wild-mushroom-sauce-recipe/index.html Pasta with Wild Mushroom Sauce at the Food Network]
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