Name: White Sauce (Sauce Blanche)
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: Salt and Pepper to Taste; 1½ Tablespoonfuls of Butter; 1½ Tablespoonfuls of Flour; ½ Cupful of Water, or White Broth

Ingredients

1½ Tablespoonfuls of Butter
1½ Tablespoonfuls of Flour
½ Cupf

Method

Blend the flour and butter in the saucepan without browning in the least. Add by degrees the boiling water or Consomme Blanc of Veal or Chicken, stirring until smooth, and boiling three minutes. Salt and pepper to taste. Add the juice of half a lemon. If the Sauce is to have other ingredients, this is the foundation for them. It must be of the consistency of thick starch to begin with, i