white sauce

English

Noun

white sauce (countable and uncountable, plural white sauces)

1. A simple sauce made from flour, milk and butter; Béchamel sauce.
2. Mayonnaise.

Coordinate terms

• brown sauce

Translations

simple sauce made from flour, butter and milk — see also béchamel sauce

• Finnish: valkokastike
• French: sauce blanche (fr) f
• Irish: anlann bán m

mayonnaise — see mayonnaise