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Easy White Sauce Recipe

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Ingredients

1 cup milk
2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
dash salt
1 Tbsp. butter or margarine

Instructions

  1. In a covered jar, combine the milk, flour and salt. Shake well until fully dissolved.
  2. Melt the butter in a 1-quart saucepan over low heat
  3. Stir in the flour-milk mixture.
  4. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and starts to bubble. Continue stirring until smooth and fully thickened.

This recipe makes 1 cup (equivalent to 1 can of cream soup) and can easily be doubled or tripled as needed.

Notes

This is the same white sauce recipe that Grandma used when she made biscuits and sausage gravy or classic hamburger gravy on toast.

You can find this recipe in our Dining On A Dime Cookbook, Volume 1.

White Sauce Variations:

Chicken Sauce

  1. Omit the salt.
  2. Substitute cold chicken stock in place of the milk. 

Cheese Sauce

  1. Add ½ cup of processed cheese cubes (Velveeta) or shredded Cheddar cheese to the white sauce.
  2. Heat over low heat, stirring until all the cheese is melted.

Find it online: https://www.livingonadime.com/hard-boiled-eggs/