white sauce
a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
Origin of white sauce
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How to use white sauce in a sentence
Mince two ounces of lean ham, one truffle, and six mushrooms; stir this mixture into a gill of white sauce.
Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de SalisIf you add a tablespoonful of chopped parsley to a pint of white sauce, you make parsley sauce.
Egg sauce is made by adding chopped hard boiled eggs to white sauce.
It is easily made the basis of a great many sauces, the name of which depends on preferred addition to the white sauce.
You can use up boiled rice in the same way with white sauce and cheese, or you can merely mix your tomato and rice and bake that.
Living on a Little | Caroline French Benton
British Dictionary definitions for white sauce
a thick sauce made from flour, butter, seasonings, and milk or stock
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