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Bechamel Warm-up

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Equal parts of fat and flour used to create a cream soup or sauce.
a)
Roux
b)
Bisque
c)
Consomme
2.
A smooth, white sauce made from a roux made with flour, milk, and butter.
a)
Hollandaise
b)
Veloute Sauce
c)
Bechamel
3.
There are 5 ‘grand sauces’.  What is another name for a ‘grand sauce’?
a)
Big
b)
Father
c)
Mother
d)
Derivative
4.
A grand sauce, made from milk and a white roux;  commonly called a ‘white sauce’.
a)
Hollandaise
b)
Béchamel
c)
Marinara
d)
Maître d’hôtel
5.
A basic sauce that serves a base sauce to use in making other variations of the original sauce
a)
Puree
b)
Coulis
c)
Bisque
d)
Mother Sauce
6.
What thickener is made with equal parts cooked flour and fat?
a)
Roux
b)
Liaison
c)
Slurry
d)
Beurre Manie
7.

According to your experience preparing Bechamel what would you consider the factors that made it into a good Bechamel?

a)

Roux Proportions : flour and butter

b)

Roux temperature

c)

Temperature of Milk

d)

Thickness of my sauce pan

8.

What kind of derivative sauce will you be able able to create out of your mother sauce bechamel?

a)

Meat Sauce

b)

Creamy pesto

c)

Cheddar sauce

d)

Alfredo sauce

9.

What was the order of steps to prepare my bechamel?

a)

standardized recipe, mise en place, gathering equipment and ingredients, making roux, boiling milk, finishing sauce

b)

roux, boiling milk, stirring

c)

boil milk, add my roux

d)

any order of steps will make my sauce correct

10.

What is a derivative sauce?

a)

a mathematical operation

b)

a derivative sauce is made adding other ingredients to my mother sauce

c)

I never heard of derivatives

d)

I never heard of mother sauces

11.

How many pints are in one gal of milk?

a)

4

b)

6

c)

8

d)

12

12.

How many tablespoons make an ounce of butter ?

a)

2

b)

4

c)

2 1/2

d)

None of the above