mother sauce
noun
plural mother sauces
: a simple sauce that is often used as the base for other sauces
Known as a mother sauce, béchamel can be modified by simply adding cheese, preferably a hard cheese like Gruyere or Swiss. With that and a pinch of nutmeg, you have a mornay sauce.—David Campiche
Any chef worth her salt can write a lengthy book on the French mother sauces. (There are lots of other mother sauces cooked in countries that are not-France, but that's another book).—Julie Cross
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