This section is from the book "A Manual Of Home-Making", by Martha Van Rensselaer. Also available from Amazon: A Manual of Home-Making.
Sauces are relied on in cookery as a basis for soups, croquettes, souffles, certain desserts, such as cornstarch pudding. and as a means of making other foods more palatable or more nutritious. The few types of simple sauces can be varied almost without limit by the imaginative cook.
 
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