The grandmother to all brown sauces was the original Espagnole sauce. But she has been replaced by the richer, easier-to-make “mother” Demi-glace and thus her family of sauces continues.
As my father once said after having eaten a bowl of giblet Demi-glace at Christmas dinner: “That’s the kind of stuff you wish you could drown in!”
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