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Basic White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce

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Ingredients:

  1. 3 tablespoons - butter
  2. 3 tablespoons - flour
  3. 2 cups - milk
  4. 3/4 teaspoons - salt
  5. 1/4 teaspoons - white pepper

Directions:

Melt the butter in top of a double boiler over boiling water; stir in the flour with a wooden spoon until smooth.

Add the milk gradually, stirring constantly; cook until sauce is thick. Stir in salt and pepper.

Remove top of double boiler from water. Strain sauce through a fine sieve; use as desired.

Pour any remaining sauce into a small bowl. Cover top of sauce with a circle of wet waxed paper; refrigerate for future use.

(One recipe makes about 2 cups.)


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