Sauce Americaine - American Sauce

Cut fine and fry in butter 2 onions and 1 carrot; add 1 bay leaf, a sprig of thyme, and a few parsley roots (cut fine).

Pound to a fine pulp the shells of 2 lobsters, add it to the vegetables, and keep stirring over the fire until all humidity is reduced; then moisten with 2 gills of white wine and 1/2 gill of brandy; set fire to it and add 3 pints of fish stock; let boil for 15 minutes, then strain; remove the butter from the stock; allow to reduce to 2 gills, add 1 quart of tomato sauce and reduce to good consistency. Strain once more, season with salt and red pepper and finish with the juice of half a lemon and 3 ounces of sweet butter.

Sauce Anchois - Anchovy Sauce

Finish 1 quart of veloute cream sauce with 6 ounces of anchovy butter.

Sauce Aurore - Aurora Sauce

Reduce 1 pint of veloute with 2 gills of fish stock and 1 gill of cream. When well reduced, add 2 gills of thick tomato sauce; season to taste, and finish with 2 ounces of lobster butter.

Sauce Cardinale - Cardinal Sauce. Same as Lobster Sauce, without lobster cut in pieces.

Sauce Aux Lucines Or An Gees - Clam Sauce

Reduce 1 pint of veloute with 2 gills of clam broth, and 1 gill of cream. Season with cayenne, add the belly part of 24 hard clams, previously cooked, and finish with 3 ounces of butter.

Sauce Au Crabes Dures - Hard Crab Sauce

Proceed as for Clam Sauce, adding a dash of sherry. Heat some crab flakes in butter, and add them instead of clams.

Sauce Crevette - Shrimp Sauce

Prepare as Lobster Sauce, using shrimps and shrimp butter instead of lobster.

Sauce Ecossaise - Scotch Sauce

Add to Sauce Xormande equal parts of carrots, celery and leeks, cooked in butter over a very mild fire, cooked string beans and truffles, all of these ingredients cut in 1/8-inch squares.

Sauce Aux Fines Herbes - Fine Herb Sauce

Reduce 1/2 gill of fish stock almost completely, and add 2 gills of veloute sauce. When boiling, bind with 2 egg yolks and a little cream; add a tablespoonful each of chopped parsley and chervil and 1/2 teaspoonful of chives; finish with 2 ounces of butter, the juice of half a lemon, salt, and a pinch of cayenne pepper.

Sauce Diplomate - Diplomat Sauce

Reduce 1/2 pints of veloute with 2 gills of fish stock and 1 gill of cream; add 2 gills of Puree Soubise (onion puree). Season to taste, finish with 2 ounces of butter, and before serving add 3 finely shredded truffles.

Sauce Aux Oeufs - Egg Sauce

Mix 2 gills each of veloute cream and Hollandaise sauce, and add 2 coarsely chopped eggs.

Or: Reduce 1 pint of veloute with 1 gill of fish stock and 1 of cream; bind with 2 egg yolks; season to taste; finish with 3 ounces of butter and add 2 coarsely chopped eggs.

Sauce Malayenne - Malay Sauce

Rasp the white of a cocoanut into a bowl and moisten with 1/2 gill of boiling water; let stand for 25 minutes and then strain The liquid and put aside to use when the sauce is finished. Fry 2 finely shredded onions in 2 ounces of butter (do not allow the onions to brown), add a crushed half clove of garlic and 2 ounces of flour, and stir for a few minutes; then moisten with 1 pint of fish stock, simmer for 20 minutes, season with salt and a teaspoonful of curry, and add the cocoanut liquid, the juice of a small lemon and one sweet pepper shredded finely; finish with 2 ounces of butter.