Cheese Sauce

Cheese Sauce
(If there isn't a Woolies around ;-)  )

Ingredients:

2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp plain flour
1 cup of milk (warmed up on stove with an onion, bay leave and pepper corns)
¼ tsp salt

Method:

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan.
2. Add the flour and salt and stir until it is bubbly.
3. Add one-third of the milk and stir all the time until the sauce boils and thickens
4. Repeat this twice until all the milk is added.
5. If you keep stirring the sauce constantly until it boils, you should get a smooth creamy sauce

Variations:

To make a cheese sauce, add ½ cup of grated cheddar cheese after you have taken the saucepan off the heat. This is important because if you keep cooking the sauce after you add the cheese, the sauce will become tough and stringy.
If you want a particularly tangy sauce use tasty or well matured cheese.
Add a little english mustard to bring out the taste of the cheese ;-)