Sauce a large variety of petites sauces could be composed. In the early 20th century, the chef Auguste Escoffier refined Carême's list of basic sauces in the four editions of his classic "Le Guide Culinaire" and its abridged English translation "A Guide to Modern Cookery". He dropped allemande as he considered it a variation of velouté, and added hollandaise and "sauce tomate", defining the five fundamental "mother sauces" still used today: A sauce which is derived from one of the mother sauces by augmenting with additional ingredients is sometimes called a "daughter sauce" or "secondary sauce". Most sauces commonly used in
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