Recipe: BECHAMEL SAUCE

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Here is an old recipe for bechamel sauce, which is simply a basic white sauce. This recipe tells exactly how to make it. Here in Louisiana people call it white roux.

BECHAMEL SAUCE

Take one tablespoon of flour, and one tablespoon of butter. Put them into a saucepan and stir with a wooden spoon until they have become a golden-brown color. Then add, a little at a time, one pint of milk; stir constantly until the sauce is as thick as custard, and is white in color. If it grows too thick, a little more milk may be added; or if it is too thin, a tiny lump of butter rolled in flour will thicken it.

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