Christine Dabney wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:29:23 -0700, >
> wrote:
>
>> Beurre blanc means taking a concentrated small volume
>> of liquid and beating small cubes of cold butter into it at a temp. of
>> 110-120F. The blanc means white butter.
>
> The blanc means white butter, but made with WHITE wine. Not made
> with white butter. Rouge refers to the red wine, it is made with red
> wine. How can it be beurre blanc (WHITE ) if it is made with red
> wine? The answer is rather obvious..it isn't pale like beurre blance.
> Use some common sense here....Red means rouge...and if you use red
> wine, it is not gonna be pale/white.

Forget it Christine. Lost cause.

What's amusing is the people who see themselves as so well informed
and consult Larousse and Escoffier at every turn would not know
such basic stuff. This is cooking 101 material. Ah, the irony.

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Mort