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Newburg sauce

Newburg sauce

9.5
A rich creamy sauce made from lobster butter, cream, and egg yolks, flavored with sherry and served with seafood
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : salsa Newburg
  • The chef poured Newburg sauce over the freshly cooked lobster to enhance its flavor.

Examples

  • Scallops served in a Newburg sauce make for a truly decadent appetizer.

  • He impressed his guests with homemade Newburg sauce drizzled on steamed seafood.

  • I made a delicious Newburg sauce for dinner.

  • Have you ever tried Newburg sauce with shrimp?

  • He impressed his guests with homemade Newburg sauce drizzled on steamed seafood.

  • Scallops served in a Newburg sauce make for a truly decadent appetizer.

  • The chef poured Newburg sauce over the freshly cooked lobster to enhance its flavor.

Synonyms

Newburg
vsNewburg sauce
  • US
8.6

A rich cream sauce often flavored with sherry served with seafood or chicken

is richer and made with lobster butter and egg yolks for seafood

How Rich

bisque
11 7.4
Newburg sauce
  • US
9.5
cream sauce
6 1.7
broth
76 1.0

Surface Forms

Newburg sauce singular
Newburg sauces plural

Morphology

Newburg + sauce

The phrase is a straightforward culinary label: once a learner knows that 'Newburg' refers to a particular rich cream preparation and knows the word 'sauce', the combined meaning is directly recoverable. This is not idiomatic or metaphorical but a named food item formed by the common pattern 'X sauce', which is easily understood by learners who know both constituents.

Etymology

Newburg sauce may come from a man's name at a famous New York restaurant in the 1800s. One popular story says a sea captain named Ben Wenberg gave a lobster recipe to the chef at Delmonico's, and the rich, buttery cream Newburg sauce was called after him, which is why the name now means 'a rich sauce served with seafood'.