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Bechamel Maigre

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. three gills of milk
  2. a gill of water
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. This is made as above, but no stock is used.
  2. Take a gill of water and three gills of milk ;
  3. cook the vegetables in the water, strain, add the boiling milk, then thicken and finish as above.
  4. For this and the preceding a hair sieve will do in place of a tammy.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve