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English
Noun
alec sauce (countable and uncountable, plural alec sauces)
- A savory sauce made from alecs (typically anchovies), especially in Mediterranean cuisine.
- A similar savory sauce that contains no alecs.
References
- 1851 "Fish sauces", Fraser's Magazine, Volume 43 By Thomas Carlyle, J. Fraser, 1851, page 267, "he ancient alec corresponds to the modern anchovy... Garum, like alec, was sometimes the name given to a Greek fish (the species unknown) and sometimes the sauce formed from it."
- 1864 "Herrings", The Westminster Review, Volumes 81-82, J.M. Mason, 1864, page 178, "The anchovy...was well known and appreciated by the ancients, at least in a pickled state. It was known to the Romans by alec or halec and aphya; it appears at one time to have been used in making the celebrated garum or fish sauce, of which the alec sauce was a thickened variety".
- 1854 Prose halieutics: or, Ancient and modern fish tattle By David Badham, J. W. Parker and Son, 1854, page 70-72, "Alec, like garum, was at once the name of a fish and of a sauce made from it... That the fish called halecula, of which the alec was originally made, was the anchovy, seems probable manufactured alec out of crabs, oysters, shrimps, sea-urchins, and a variety of improper substitutes".