Spice rub the salt for flavor and the sugar for caramelization. The simplest rub is just coarsely ground black pepper as in steak au poivre. Spice rubs can also have ingredients such as herbs, crushed garlic or oil added to make a paste. Less common ingredients can include coffee beans. Spice rubs are mainly used for preparing meats and fish. There are many different recipes for rubs and most of them are targeted towards a specific kind of food. The exact combination of spices that makes a good rub for a particular kind of food varies from region to region and culture
Café de Paris sauce butter is shaped into a roll using aluminium foil and chilled. When the dish is served, a piece of the butter is sliced off and allowed to melt on the hot meat. Café de Paris sauce Café de Paris sauce is a complex butter-based sauce served with grilled beef. When it is served with the sliced portion of an "entrecôte" (in American English: a rib eye steak) or a "faux-filet" (in English: a sirloin steak) the resulting dish is known as ""entrecôte" Café de Paris". The sauce was first popularised in the 1940s by the Café de Paris restaurant in