Alfredo Sauce

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what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?

Crash

http://pasta.allrecipes.com/recipes/print_fullpage_scale.asp?nprid=12065&servings=2&size=3

Alfredo Sauce
A satisfying sauce you can use on any type of pasta - dry
or fresh. Makes 2 servings.
Printed from Allrecipes, Submitted by B.Mason
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3 tablespoons butter
8 fluid ounces heavy whipping cream
salt to taste
1 pinch ground nutmeg
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup grated Romano cheese
1 egg yolk
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

Directions
1 Melt butter or margarine in a saucepan over medium
heat. Add heavy cream, stirring constantly. Stir in
salt,
nutmeg, grated Parmesan cheese, and grated Romano
cheese. Stir
constantly until melted, then mix in egg yolk. Simmer
over
medium low heat for 3 to 5 minutes. Garnish with
additional
grated Parmesan cheese, if desired.

Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

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what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?

Crash

Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream and
Butter Sauce.

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Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

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what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?

Crash

Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream and
Butter Sauce.

True. And, to the best of my knowledge, "Alfredo Sauce" is nearly
unknown outside the US (e.g. no A.S. in Italy, very rare in the UK).

F

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(Virginia Woolf)

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Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

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what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?

Crash

Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream and
Butter Sauce.

True. And, to the best of my knowledge, "Alfredo Sauce" is nearly unknown
outside the US (e.g. no A.S. in Italy, very rare in the UK).

F

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I don't understand your point ... there are a lot of things that are not
eaten outside of the US (for the most part). That doesn't mean they don't
exist.
btw, I really don't care one way or the other about A.S. I always think this
argument is just silly.

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Monsur Fromage du Pollet said:

Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

>what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?
>
>Crash
>
>

Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream and
Butter Sauce.

True. And, to the best of my knowledge, "Alfredo Sauce" is nearly

unknown

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outside the US (e.g. no A.S. in Italy, very rare in the UK).

F

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I don't understand your point ... there are a lot of things that are not
eaten outside of the US (for the most part). That doesn't mean they don't
exist.
btw, I really don't care one way or the other about A.S. I always think

this

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argument is just silly.

Didn't sound like an argument to me, just a little bit of possibly useful
and/or interesting trivia.

Shaun aRe

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Monsur Fromage du Pollet said:

Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

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what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?

Crash

Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream

and

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Butter Sauce.

True. And, to the best of my knowledge, "Alfredo Sauce" is nearly
unknown outside the US (e.g. no A.S. in Italy, very rare in the UK).

F

Uhmmm...

http://www.e-rcps.com/pasta/rcp/p_abc/alfredo.shtml

Andy

Mi e' parso che Galet abbia scritto:

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True. And, to the best of my knowledge, "Alfredo Sauce"
is nearly unknown outside the US (e.g. no A.S. in Italy,
very rare in the UK).

Yes, here in Italy it is almost unknown.
But, wait, now I remember! I have recently seen a frozen
mono-dose box of "tagliatelle Alfredo" for microwave, in a local
supermarket.
Maybe they'll get famous also here.
--
Vilco
Think Pink , Drink Rose'

Mi e' parso che Andy abbia scritto:

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Uhmmm...

http://www.e-rcps.com/pasta/rcp/p_abc/alfredo.shtml

LOL, he got more famous in the US than here in Italy.
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Vilco
Think Pink , Drink Rose'

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Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

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what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?

Crash

Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream and
Butter Sauce.

I agree but somewhere I've read that the sauce was actually put together by
Alfredo di Lello(sp), somewhere back in the '20s. I don't recall the exact
details but if I recall, it was a basic white sauce with a lot of butter
and cheese. I'm sure I read it on the 'net someplace but can't remember
which site. I remember being disgusted by the recipes because on one hand,
they had some interesting info. OTOH all of their recipes called for
jarred, commercial sauces.

Michael

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Monsur Fromage du Pollet said:

Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

>what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?
>
>Crash
>
>

Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream

and

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Butter Sauce.

True. And, to the best of my knowledge, "Alfredo Sauce" is nearly
unknown outside the US (e.g. no A.S. in Italy, very rare in the UK).

F

Uhmmm...

http://www.e-rcps.com/pasta/rcp/p_abc/alfredo.shtml

Andy

I knew I had read that info somewhere. The site you posted wasn't the site
I saw it on though. Thanks for the link, I'm saving the recipe 😉

Michael

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Monsur Fromage du Pollet wrote:
> Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking
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>>what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?
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>>Crash
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> Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream and
> Butter Sauce.
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True. And, to the best of my knowledge, "Alfredo Sauce" is nearly

unknown

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outside the US (e.g. no A.S. in Italy, very rare in the UK).

F

--

I don't understand your point ... there are a lot of things that are not
eaten outside of the US (for the most part). That doesn't mean they
don't
exist.
btw, I really don't care one way or the other about A.S. I always think

this

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argument is just silly.

Didn't sound like an argument to me, just a little bit of possibly useful
and/or interesting trivia.

Shaun aRe

argument is also a statment given in proof or rebuttal, that is the meaning
that was intended.

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Monsur Fromage du Pollet said:

Crash wrote on 29 Jul 2005 in rec.food.cooking

>what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?
>
>Crash
>
>

Fact...The thing commonly called Alfredo Sauce is actually a Cream

and

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Butter Sauce.

True. And, to the best of my knowledge, "Alfredo Sauce" is nearly
unknown outside the US (e.g. no A.S. in Italy, very rare in the UK).

F

Uhmmm...

http://www.e-rcps.com/pasta/rcp/p_abc/alfredo.shtml

Andy

I knew the story of Mr di Lello etc. I know there is a restaurant in
Rome serving fettuccine Alfredo (but I've never been there). However,
I've never found "fettuccine Alfredo" in any Italian cooking book. Maybe
Alfredo moved to the US and there he was successful with his recipe.

Moreover, I'd say that 98% of Italian people ignore that such a dish
exists at all, 1% may have heard of that, and 1% know what it is.

That is to say: outside the US, if you ask someone what "fettucine
Alfredo" is, chances are that s/he will tell you "they don't exist".
But, in fact, they exist...

F

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what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?

Crash

Ooh, that Damsel, she's trying to liven up the summer doldrums by stirring
up another "Alfredo Sauce" thread!

But she's right, Crash, there is no such animal as Alfredo SAUCE. Fettucini
Alfredo, or any pasta Alfredo, is simply pasta dressed with butter and
Parmesan cheese. No sauce, no cream, no eggs, no nothing else.

Leone's Italian Cookbook (1967) has a recipe with a preface by Gene Leone
referring to his "good friend Alfredo" of Alfredo's restaurant in Rome. The
recipe devotes an entire page to making the pasta and about two sentences
about placing it in a warm bowl and adding butter and cheese.

Let the wars begin.

Felice

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Let the wars begin.

Felice

YES... a good ol' fashioned rfc food fight!!!

Fling...

.... SPLAT

Crash said:

what is Alfredo sauce? Dams says it dont exist.. fact or fiction?

Crash

Here is the link to the restaurant.
http://www.alfredo-roma.it/english/frame/storia.htm
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Susan N.

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Felice Friese said:

recipe devotes an entire page to making the pasta and about two sentences
about placing it in a warm bowl and adding butter and cheese.

Let the wars begin.

Unless the pasta is bone dry, it contains some pasta water and this
mixed with melted butter and cheese qualifies it as a sauce just as much
as any starch-free reduction sauce ...at least in my mind.

nb

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Felice Friese said:

recipe devotes an entire page to making the pasta and about two sentences
about placing it in a warm bowl and adding butter and cheese.

Let the wars begin.

Unless the pasta is bone dry, it contains some pasta water and this
mixed with melted butter and cheese qualifies it as a sauce just as much
as any starch-free reduction sauce ...at least in my mind.

nb

Dumping a (warm) bowl of fettuccine Alfredo atop Notbob's head, Felice says,
"This will stick to your head and not run down your neck. Ergo, it is not a
sauce."

:-)

Felice Friese said:

Dumping a (warm) bowl of fettuccine Alfredo atop Notbob's head, Felice says,
"This will stick to your head and not run down your neck. Ergo, it is not a
sauce."

Does that include trim? 😉

nb

On Fri 29 Jul 2005 08:39:58a, notbob wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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Felice Friese said:

recipe devotes an entire page to making the pasta and about two sentences
about placing it in a warm bowl and adding butter and cheese.

Let the wars begin.

Unless the pasta is bone dry, it contains some pasta water and this
mixed with melted butter and cheese qualifies it as a sauce just as much
as any starch-free reduction sauce ...at least in my mind.

nb

Sort of like "Gravy Train" that makes it's own "gravy" when you add water?

Sorry, but it's not a sauce. It's merely dressed with butter and cheese.

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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