Title: Cornstarch White Sauce
Categories: Sauce Blank
Yield: 2 Half-cups

CREAM CORNSTARCH BOX
1 1/2	tb	Butter
1	tb	Cornstarch
1/2	ts	Sea salt
1/8	ts	Pepper, black
1	c	Milk

Melt butter in saucepan. Blend in cornstarch, salt, and pepper. Gradually add milk. Heat to boiling over direct heat and then boil gently 2 minutes, stirring constantly.

Sylvia's comments: much to my surprise, this performed exactly as advertised! I didn't expect it to work because the cornstarch clumped in the butter; I expected to re-make it using the usual stir-water-into-cornstarch technique. The second time, I didn't think it would thicken at all because I left it unstirred for long enough for some cornstarch to "cook" clumped together. Neither attempt was lumpless, but I don't care; they were both quite usable and this is MUCH easier and quicker than the flour technique.

Nutritional Information per serving: xx calories, xx gm protein, xx gm carbohydrate, xx gm fat, x% Calories from fat, x mg chol, xx mg sodium, x g dietary fiber

MM by Sylvia Steiger, SylviaRN (at) compuserve (dot) com, moderator of GT Cookbook and FringeNet Lowfat & Luscious echoes, creator of Frazzled Cook breadmachine mixes at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SylviaRN

From: Sylvia Steiger Date: 07 May 97 National Cooking Echo Ä

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