SC - OT:OOP:Macaroni and Cheese

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

And it came to pass on 29 Jan 01, , that Angie Malone wrote:

> I think she made a medium white sauce using corn starch and then added the
> cheese to the corn starch.  The other part she is laughing about is how to
> make a medium sauce with corn starch instead of flour.  I remember her
> buying cream brand cornstarch and having it tell you on the back how to
> make a three kinds of sauce, medium was one of them.

Here's a recipe for medium white sauce.  It's from Cookbook USA, 
which is a CD-ROM compendium of hundreds of community/charity 
cookbooks.  It has a lot of 50s and 60s style recipes.

#471499 MEDIUM  WHITE  SAUCE

 Ingredients : 
 1 1/2 tbsp. butter or margarine
 1 tbsp. cornstarch
 1 c. milk
 1/2 tsp. salt
 1/8 tsp. pepper

 Preparation : 
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.  Makes 1 cup sauce.  
Combine with 2 cups drained, cooked or canned vegetables, diced 
meat, flaked fish or 4 hard cooked sliced eggs.  Serves 4.


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