white sauce

American  

noun

1. a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.

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white sauce British  

noun

1. a thick sauce made from flour, butter, seasonings, and milk or stock

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Etymology

Origin of white sauce

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

Or even the thin, white sauce from your favorite halal cart.

From Salon

It's made with white sauce, cheese, ham and mustard, cooked under the grill.

From BBC

I make a really good one with red or white sauce, but my red sauce is the No. 1 thing on the menu.

From Los Angeles Times

The luxurious white sauce that defines the recipe compliments the sweetness of the scallops to perfection, but, honestly, I think it would make a piece of cardboard delicious.

From Salon

His favorite method, which he "holds dear," is his father's recipe that he calls Ronnie Herman's mussels in white sauce à la crème.

From Salon