Dear Lola What are Lolas Sauce Blocks and what are they used for?
I created sauce blocks thirty years ago to simplify sauce and gravy making for my commercial kitchen to obtain a consistent quality for the sauces we used. With a staff of eight cooks it was impossible to maintain a consistent standard for the sauces. When I commenced teaching gluten free cookery I found that I was often teaching people who had no previous cooking knowledge and saucemaking was a problem. The use of Sauce Blocks again solved this problem and has been a help to gluten free cooks ever since. In simple terms sauce blocks are roux blocks of my gluten free flour cooked with equal quantities of margarine or butter for a few minutes and set in an iceblock tray. These blocks can be frozen and used to thicken liquid when required.
