white sauce
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1.7
- noun
- /waɪt sɔs/
:
salsa blanca
- You can make a creamy white sauce using butter, flour, and milk.
- a cup of white sauce
- 1/2 cup white sauce
- pasta in white sauce
You love your pasta with white sauce.
- You love your pasta with white sauce.
- No, I was just traveling with some, you know, white sauce from a food cart.
Examples
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My mother used to boil them and make a white sauce.
Blog text (1) -
A steward brought two trays: chicken breasts in white sauce, yellow beans, and apple tarts.
Fiction book (1996) -
We'll have the white sauce.
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You want salmon in white sauce?
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The white sauce makes the dish.
Blog text (1) -
A filet of sole lies in front of him, bathed in a smooth white sauce.
Fiction book (1996) -
I can't tell you the variety of the noodle, but there was a white sauce with clams.
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In a while, they eat supper of broiled scrod, white sauce, parsley potatoes, and baby peas.
Fiction book (1991) -
Chicken may go into the smoker, then be scattered on pizza dough with roasted garlic, a scattering of green onions, white sauce, and mozzarella.
Blog text (1) -
I pre-steam them for a few minutes, put them into a casserole dish, cover with a white sauce, cheese (any kind I have on hand), any spices I want, and a few bread crumbs, then bake until it all thickens up a bit.
Blog text (1)
Synonyms
569
1.0
A liquid served with food to add taste
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4.2
A white sauce you make by cooking milk with butter and flour until thick
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7.3
A smooth white sauce made from milk thickened with butter and flour
How Thick
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1.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'white sauce' is a literal color + noun compound: a sauce that is white or pale, so a B1 learner who knows 'white' and 'sauce' will readily infer it refers to a pale cooking sauce. Specific culinary details (e.g., roux and milk) are not deducible from the words, but the basic meaning is transparently compositional and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
White sauce is named for its colour. Cooks mix milk with butter and flour to make a smooth, pale sauce, so the words white and sauce describe its look and why it is used as a simple base in many dishes.