White Sauce

Ingredients

• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• two tablespoonfuls flour
• one-half teaspoonful of salt
• one and one-half cups of scalded milk

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter, add flour and salt, then pour in scalded milk slowly while stirring.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 254. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

white sauce. Cook as for boiled macaroni and re-heat in white sauce. To MAKE WHITE SAUCE. — Melt two tablespoonfuls of but- ter, add two tablespoonfuls flour with one-half teaspoonful of salt, and pour on slowly one and one-half cups of scalded milk. Baked Macaroni. Put macaroni with white sauce in buttered baking-dish, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake until crumbs are brown. Baked Macaroni with Cheese. Put a layer of boiled macaroni in buttered baking-dish, sprinkle with grated cheese; repeat until dish is nearly full; pour over white sauce, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake until crumbs are brown. Macaroni with Tomato Sauce. Re-heat boiled macaroni in one and one-half cups of tomato sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese, and serve; or prepare as baked macaroni, using tomato in place of white sauce. Macaroni a 1'Italienne. Three-quarters cup of macaroni, two quarts of boiling salted water, one-half onion, two cloves, one and a half cups tomato sauce, one-half cup grated cheese, two tablespoonfuls of wine, one-half tablespoonful of butter. Cook macaroni in boiling salted water, with butter, and onion stuck with cloves; drain, remove, re-heat in tomato sauce, add cheese and wine. Macaroni Italian Style. (Another Method.) One cup of macaroni, two tablespoonfuls of butter

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