Your Complete Guide To The Five Mother Sauces - Chowhound

Static Media/Shutterstock/Getty Unless you're a seasoned cook, the idea of the five mother sauces may sound intimidating — if you've heard of them at all. You may know that they're a foundational part of classic French cuisine, which is enough to make them seem scary to an ordinary American home cook. Adding to the intimidation factor is the vaguely authoritarian tone of the name: why are they called the mother…