white sauce

noun

1. a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.

white sauce

noun

1. a thick sauce made from flour, butter, seasonings, and milk or stock

Word History and Origins

Origin of white sauce¹

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

Mince two ounces of lean ham, one truffle, and six mushrooms; stir this mixture into a gill of white sauce.

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If you add a tablespoonful of chopped parsley to a pint of white sauce, you make parsley sauce.

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Egg sauce is made by adding chopped hard boiled eggs to white sauce.

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It is easily made the basis of a great many sauces, the name of which depends on preferred addition to the white sauce.

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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.

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