Cheese Sauce

Vegetarian

This recipe is from Delia's Complete How to Cook.

Vegetarians may like to know you can buy a vegetarian style Parmesan from Bookham and Harrison Farms Ltd.

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Method

When you're ready to make the sauce, put the milk in a saucepan.

Then simply add the sauce flour, butter and seasoning and bring everything gradually up to simmering point over a medium heat, whisking continuously with a balloon whisk, until the sauce has thickened and becomes smooth and glossy. Then turn the heat down to its lowest possible setting and let the sauce cook very gently for 5 minutes to take the raw taste out of the flour, stirring from time to time. After that stir in the cheddar and grated parmesan.

Finally taste and check for seasoning.