White sauce

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Dairy

By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (12)

1.00 Litres milk — full cream
10.00 ml mustard — powder
3.00 fresh parsley
2.00 onion — sliced
1.00 lemon peel — stripped
30.00 ml butter
60.00 ml cornflour — mixed with water
5.00 ml butter — optional
30.00 ml sherry — medium dry
salt and freshly ground black pepper — to taste
1.00 eggs — yolk only
45.00 ml cream
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Method:

Heat milk in saucepan. Stir in mustard powder, parsley, onion slices and lemon peel. Bring almost to boil.
Remove from stove, set aside for 5 to 10 minutes, then strain into bowl. Melt butter in heavy-based saucepan until foaming.
Remove from stove and stir in cornflour and water mixture. Return to stove and stir until thick.
Remove from stove. Pour milk in, whisking constantly. Simmer over moderate heat, whisking, until boiling. Boil for 1 minute, stirring with a wooden spoon.
Remove from stove. Stir in butter if using, sherry, salt and pepper and whisk until thick and shiny. Beat egg yolk, stir in a little warm sauce, then whisk into white sauce. Stir in cream.
Set aside in a cool place. Use to make chicken à la king (see recipe).



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