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Metasynth

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(hangs head) what’s beurre blanc?
It’s a white wine and shallot reduction to which copious amount of cold butter are whisked in.

It’s literally a white butter sauce. So you reduce white wine, shallot, and whatever flavor you want it to have. It’s almost always a citrus. So once you have this intensely powerful reduction (maybe reducing 1/2 cup to a tablespoon or two), you whisk in cubes of cold butter a few at a time. Waiting till they melt and emulsify completely before adding more butter cubes and whisking away.

Add back about as much butter as liquid you originally started with, give it take depending on how intense you want the flavor to be.

So if you start with 1/2 cup of wine and citrus, reduce it to a couple tablespoons, and add back 1/2 cup of cold butter.

season and enjoy! It’s great with seafood. If you want to cheat and help with the emulsification process, add a tablespoon or two of cream to the reduction, and then reduce the cream a tiny bit. It helps prevent the sauce from breaking. Try to keep it off the flame when whisking in the butter, if it gets too hot it’ll break
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
It’s a white wine and shallot reduction to which copious amount of cold butter are whisked in.

It’s literally a white butter sauce. So you reduce white wine, shallot, and whatever flavor you want it to have. It’s almost always a citrus. So once you have this intensely powerful reduction (maybe reducing 1/2 cup to a tablespoon or two), you whisk in cubes of cold butter a few at a time. Waiting till they melt and emulsify completely before adding more butter cubes and whisking away.

Add back about as much butter as liquid you originally started with, give it take depending on how intense you want the flavor to be.

So if you start with 1/2 cup of wine and citrus, reduce it to a couple tablespoons, and add back 1/2 cup of cold butter.

season and enjoy! It’s great with seafood. If you want to cheat and help with the emulsification process, add a tablespoon or two of cream to the reduction, and then reduce the cream a tiny bit. It helps prevent the sauce from breaking. Try to keep it off the flame when whisking in the butter, if it gets too hot it’ll break
I’ll have to try that. I’d like a no-wine recipe though. My taste is weird enough that wine is a reliable … liability.
 
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