Cheese Sauce

The idea of adding grated cheese to a white sauce doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone until about the eighteenth century, when vegetables and macaroni began to be topped with cheese, which was then toasted. It’s a great invention, though, and the sauce has so many uses, working well with other flavours. Cauliflower, macaroni, lasagne, leeks and many more foods have all had and have a relationship with cheese sauce.

Here, I’m adding the cheese to a basic white sauce, which does m