This basic white sauce recipe is so versatile ... croquettes from very thick chilled white sauce mixed with ham or fish, then breaded and fried.

A perfect red snapper in a simple but elegant red wine and butter sauce. A delicious combination of wine and fish! Fish tastes better in wine and butter, doesn't it? Pan fry it in a tsp of olive oil ...

It's the sauce ... ketchup recipes including Eliza Smith's 1727 recipe which was the first one published in English. Some of the listed ingredients are anchovies, shallots, white wine vinegar ...

In other words, just grab a bottle of white wine from the cabinet. Measurements vary per recipe, but here are the basics.