Vodka sauce Vodka sauce Vodka sauce is an American cuisine sauce made from a smooth tomato sauce, vodka, typical Italian herbs and heavy cream, which gives the sauce its distinctive orange coloration. It gained popularity in the 1970s, when a variation won a national recipe contest in Italy, although it may well have been a sauce before its popularization in the 1970s. It is a key ingredient in penne alla vodka. The vodka's function is, ostensibly, to release flavors in the tomato that are normally inaccessible; using alcoholic beverages for this purpose is common in Italian cooking, although usually accomplished with wine.
Chaudfroid sauce Louis-Alexandre Berthier (20 November 1753 – 1 June 1815) of France, during Berthier's time under Napoleon. Chaudfroid sauce is a culinary sauce or gravy that can be prepared as a meat-based sauce by boiling the carcasses or bones of game meats or other meats such as poultry with herbs and spices. Vegetables such as onion and carrot have also been used. After cooking, the reduced sauce mixture is strained and gelatin is then added to provide viscosity. Chaudfroid sauce is used for several meats and meat-based dishes that are served cold, including meats such as fish, poultry, rabbit, venison, partridge,