Sauces and Gravies

Sauces and gravies offer a variety of complements to your table: Sweet and Sour Sauce, Blue Cheese Sauce, Hot Chinese Mustard, and Lemon-Chive Sauce can add to your next meal.

And if you never learned the secret behind the perfect Southern Cream Gravy (for your Chicken Fried Steak or biscuits, Yankees among ye), you need this recipe NOW!

  • Sweet and Sour Sauce
  • Polynesian Style Sweet and Sour Sauce
  • Hot Chinese Mustard
  • Red Pepper Sauce
  • Almond Sauce
  • White Sauce
  • Lemon-Chive Sauce
  • Creole Sauce for Fish
  • Cheese Sauce
  • Jamaica Sauce
  • Herb-Garlic Sauce
  • Blue Cheese Sauce
  • Herb Sauce
  • Tartar Sauce
  • Cocktail Sauce
  • Giblet Gravy
  • Easy Beef Gravy
  • Cream Gravy
  • Garlic Cream Sauce
  • Add A Favorite Sauce or Gravy



Here’s a Sample Recipe from the Sauces and Gravies Chapter; Enjoy!



Tartar Sauce


(From The American Gourmet Collection Cookbook)

1 cup Mayonnaise

1/4 cup finely chopped Sweet Pickle

1 tablespoon finely chopped Onion

1 tablespoon snipped Parsley

1 tablespoon chopped Pimiento

1 teaspoon Lemon Juice

pinch Sugar


In a small bowl, combine all ingredients. Cover and refrigerate. Serve with fish and seafood. Yield: about 1-1/3 cups.


The American Gourmet Collection Cookbook is available exclusively at Amazon.com; you can order your copy here.

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