Craig Claiborne

Basic white Sauce

Preparation info
  • Yield:

    1

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking
Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1987

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Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons flour
  • 1 to 1½ cups<

Method

  1. Melt the butter in a medium-size saucepan. Add the flour and immediately start stirring with a wire whisk.
  2. Add the milk all at once, stirring rapidly with the whisk. Add the salt and pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes.