Sauce Parisienne

Preparation info
  • Makes

    2¾ cups

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Good Cheap Food

By Miriam Ungerer

Published 1973

  • About

This is often made with fish stock (a velouté) and served with fish fillets or shellfish.

Ingredients

  • 2 egg yolks
  • ½ cup heavy cream
  • 2 cups medium-thick velouté</

Method

Beat the egg yolks and the cream together, then beat in a little of the hot sauce with a wire whisk (this will prevent the eggs scrambling) before beating the egg/cream mixture into the sauce. Last, beat in the butter spoon by spoon and use the sauce at once. (If necessary, you may hold the sauce in a double boiler or bain marie for an hour before adding the butter enrichment at the last