brown sauce

noun

: a sauce consisting typically of stock thickened with flour browned in fat

Examples of brown sauce in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The bang bang broccoli arrived crowded in a small bowl, completely covered in a pale brown sauce. Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023 That sticky brown sauce comes in mild, medium, or hot varieties, and even the medium version will leave your tongue tingling long after the last bite. Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023 This thick, dark brown sauce is a staple in Chinese family-style cooking. Katie Workman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023 Food styling becomes its own choreography when Ho stacks five white bowls precariously and whimsically high, packing the crowning bowl with dumplings and pouring chili over them so that the reddish brown sauce glides down the porcelain, on to the tablecloth, messy and beautifully irreverent. Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022 As the cook in the family, my father massaged drops of that thin brown sauce into hamburgers and meatballs, giving them a faint, briny funk. Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023 But the base of a memorably delectable brown sauce is always soy paste. Clarissa Wei, Bon Appétit, 25 Jan. 2023 You’re meant to brush some of the anticucho sauce (a brown sauce that tasted of garlic, onion and vinegar) on the skewers then cook them. Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2022 The takoyaki starter is rich and creamy, topped with a sweet brown sauce, Japanese mayo and fishy bonito flakes, which are smoked, dried and fermented flakes of tuna. Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

1723, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of brown sauce was in 1723

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“Brown sauce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brown%20sauce. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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