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Sauce and Condiment
Recipes
From
Thom's Recipe File
Sauce
In
cooking, a sauce is a liquid served on or used in the preparation of
food. Sauces are not consumed by
themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish.
Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin
salsus, meaning salted.
Sauces may be prepared
sauces, such as soy sauce, which are usually bought, not made, by the cook;
or cooked sauces, such as B้chamel sauce, which are generally made just
before serving.
Sauces for salads are
called salad dressing.
Sauces are an essential
element in cooking all over the world.
Condiment
A condiment is a substance applied to food,
usually in
 the
form of a sauce, powder, or spread, to enhance or improve the flavor.
Condiments are typically smeared with knives, squirted, or sprinkled onto
other foods.
Commercially prepared condiments are usually
packaged in glass or plastic jars. Plastic has displaced glass in a
number of applications where plastic's squeezability is an advantage, such
as for ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and other condiments with a paste-like
consistency.
Some commercial venues (especially packaged
meals dispensed by airlines and in some cafeterias), condiments are packaged
in single-serving packets.
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Caesar Salad? |
According to the "Wikipedia.org" a typical Caesar
salad comprises romaine lettuce and croutons dressed
with Parmesan cheese, lemon juice, olive oil, egg,
Worcestershire sauce, and black pepper, originally prepared
tableside. Caesar Cardini, who ran restaurants in Tijuana,
Mexico, in the 1920s-1940s, is commonly credited as the
creator.
As a historical addendum, the salad recipe was created at
a place operated by Cardini on the ground floor of the
Hotel Comercial at the corner of 2nd Street and
Main. In 1929-1930, Cardini moved his restaurant to the
newly constructed Hotel Caesar on Main St., nowadays
Avenida Revoluci๓n, near the corner of 5th St. The
Hotel Comercial is long-gone, but the historic
"Comercial" building still stands at the same location, and
the Hotel Caesar's continues to operate to this day.
The restaurant closed in 1993, but after a renovation in the
late 1990's, the bar in the hotel began preparing table-side
"ensalada Caesar per tradition" and claim to serve the
"original Caesar salad".
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