Recipe and source notes

White Sauce For Vegetables

4 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 1/2 stick butter
  • 1 heaping tbsp. flour
  • 1 1/2 cups milk
  • Salt to taste
  • Dash of white pepper

Make it step by step

  1. Melt butter in saucepan and stir in flour to make a paste. Add 1/4 cup milk and stir (never stop stirring). Add another 1/4 cup milk and stir until it thickens.
  2. Each time sauce thickens, add 1/4 cup milk, stirring constantly. Continue adding milk until 1 1/2 cups are used.
  3. To make a cheesy sauce, add 4 slices American cheese, broken up. After cheese has melted, sauce is ready to pour over prepared vegetables. This recipe is good over potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussel sprouts; it is especially tasty on macaroni.

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Adapted from Foodista by Anonymous, under CC BY 3.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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