SAUCE

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SAUCE , flavouring or seasoning for food, usually in a liquid or semi-liquid state, either served separately or mixed with the dish. The preparation of suitable sauces is one of the essentials of good cookery. The word comes through the Fr. from the Lat. salsa, salted or pickled food (salire, to

season

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio,
sowing
- SOWING (from "to sow," O. Eng. shwan, cf. Du. zaaijen, Ger. saen, &c.; the
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  is seen in Lat. severe, cf. "seed")
time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

or sprinkle with sal,

salt

). The same Latin word has also given " saucer," properly a dish for sauce, now a small

flat

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

plate

PLATE

with a depressed centre to hold a cup and so prevent the spilling of liquid, and
" sausage " (0. Fr. saulcisse,

Late

LATE

Lat. salsicium), minced seasoned

meat

MEAT

, chiefly pork, stuffed into coverings of skin. The colloquial use of " saucy," impertinent, " cheeky" is an obvious transference from the tartness or pungency of a sauce, and has a respectable literary ancestry; thus

Latimer

LATIMER, HUGH (c. 1490-1555)

(Misc. Sel.) " when we see a fellow sturdy, lofty and proud, men say this is a saucy fellow."

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