White Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 rounded tablespoonful of butter
• 1 rounded tablespoonful of flour
• 1 cup of milk
• % teaspoonful of salt
• 2 shakes of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Melt the butter; when it bubbles, put in the flour, stirring it well; when this is smooth, slowly add the milk, salt, and pepper; stir and cook till very smooth; you can make it like thin cream by cooking only one minute, or like thick cream by cooking it two minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The fun of cooking (1915) by Caroline French Benton, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

white sauce. Repeat till the dish is full, with the crumbs on top; dot with butter and brown well in the oven; it will take about twenty minutes. Brownie rolled the crackers for this, while Mildred made the white sauce by the rule she said was so easy it was exactly like learning a bo. *^That is so queer,'* laughed her mother, ** be- cause cooks call it just that — ^the a b c of cook- ing 1 It is the rule you use more often than any other. WHITE SAUCE 1 rounded tablespoonful of butter. 1 rounded tablespoonful of flour. 1 cup of milk. % teaspoonful of salt. 2 shakes of pepper

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