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================== Information file ================== * Asparagus Sauce: Add ½ cup cooked or canned asparagus, cut into small pieces, to hot medium white sauce. Serve with omelets or souffles.

* Caper Sauce: Add 3 to 4 tablespoons chopped capers and 1 teaspoon lemon juice to white sauce. Serve with fish.

* Cheese Sauce: Add ½ to 1 cup chopped or grated American cheese and a dash of Worcestershire sauce or paprika (optional) to white sauce. Stir over hot, not boiling, water until cheese is melted.

Serve with fish, eggs, macaroni, or rice.

* Cheese Olive Sauce: Prepare think white sauce and omit salt. Add ½ to 1 cup chopped or grated American cheese and ½ cup stuffed olives to white sauce. Stir over hot, not boiling, water until cheese is melted. Serve with macaroni, rice, or vegetables.

* Cheese Tomato Sauce: Use ½ cup tomato juice or strained tomatoes and ½ cup milk in preparing medium sauce. Add ¼ cup grated or finely cut American cheese to hot sauce. Stir until melted. Serve over cauliflower.

* Crabmeat Sauce: Remove bony particles from crabmeat and add ½ to 1 cup flaked canned crabmeat to seasoned medium white sauce. Flavor with 1 tablespoon dry sherry wine if desired.

* Cream Onion or Celery Sauce: Saute ¼ cup finely chopped onion or celery in 1 tablespoon butter or margarine. Add to 1 cup medium white sauce.

* Creole Sauce: Use tomato juice or strained tomatoes for the liquid.

Saute minced onion, chopped green pepper, and minced celery in the butter before flour is added.

* Curry Sauce: Add ¼ to ½ teaspoon curry powder with dry ingredients. Serve with chicken, lamb, rice, or fish.

* Dill Sauce: Add 3 tablespoons minced fresh dill to 1 cup hot sauce, seasoned medium white sauce.

* Egg Sauce: Add 2 chopped hard-cooked eggs to white sauce, additional salt, and a dash of paprika. Serve with fish.

* Goldenrod Sauce: Add 2 chopped hard-cooked egg whites to 1 cup seasoned medium white sauce. Pour over fish and sprinkle with chopped hard-cooked egg yolks.

* Green Pea Sauce: Add ½ cup hot cooked or canned peas and 1 tablespoon chopped pimento to hot medium white sauce. Serve with omelets or salmon or tuna loaf. * Horseradish Sauce: Add 2 to 4 tablespoons prepared drained horseradish, and ¼ to ½ teaspoon prepared mustard to white sauce.

Serve with boiled beef or corned beef.

* Lobster or Shrimp Sauce: Add ½ to 1 cup canned or cooked lobster meat or shrimp, cut into small pieces to seasoned medium white sauce.

For added flavor, add a tablespoon dry white wine. Serve with omelets, baked, broiled, or poached fish.

* Milanese Sauce: Use ½ cup veal stock and ½ cup milk in preparing medium white sauce. Add 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese to the thickened sauce. Serve with veal.

* Mock Holandaise Sauce: To ½ cup well seasoned white sauce, add equal amount of mayonaise and enough lemon juice to sharpen. Serve on asparagus and other green vegetables.

* Mushroom Sauce: Add ½ to 1 cup sliced cooked or canned mushrooms to white sauce. Serve with chicken or vegetables.

* Mustard Sauce: Add 1 tablespoon prepared mustard to white sauce.

Serve with fish or tongue.

* Oyster Sauce: Gently cook ½ cup small oysters in their own liquid until they plump and edges begin to curl, about 5 minutes. Add to hot medium white sauce. Serve with omelets, fish patties, and timbales.

* Paprika Sauce: Add ½ to 1 teaspoon paprika with dry ingredients.

Season with ¼ teaspoon lemon juice, if desired. Serve with noodles, macaroni, or chicken.

* Pimento Sauce: Add ¼ cup chopped pimento to white sauce; ¼ cup green pepper may be added if desired. Serve with fish or vegetables.

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