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.
Allemande sauce Allemande sauce Allemande sauce is a sauce in French cuisine that is based on a light-colored velouté sauce (typically veal; chicken and shellfish veloutés can also be used), but thickened with egg yolks and heavy cream, and seasoned with lemon juice. Velouté was one of the four mother sauces of classic French cuisine as defined by Antoine Carême in "The Art of French Cooking in the 19th Century." Escoffier perfected the sauce allemande ("German sauce") in the early 20th century. At the outbreak of World War I, he rescued the sauce by renaming it sauce blonde. The sauce is generally