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Homemade Cheese Sauce

A cheese sauce that you can make at home that is perfect for macaroni and cheese and pretty much everything else.
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 part flour this recipe used 2 tablespoons
  • 1 part butter this recipe used 2 tablespoons
  • Whole Milk
  • Cheddar Cheese grated

Instructions
 

  • Melt the butter in a pot.
  • Add flour, and combine to make a roux.
  • Slowly add milk and stir constantly. Continue to add milk until the sauce sticks to the back of a spoon.
  • Turn off heat completely.
  • Add cheese, one small handful at a time, and stir until completely melted.
  • Keep adding small handfuls of cheese until you reach the desired amount of cheesiness!
  • Salt and pepper to taste.

Notes

Keeping handfuls of cheese small, while adding to the milk sauce, keeps the sauce from cooling down too quickly. It needs to remain warm enough to melt the cheese. No one likes a broken cheese sauce.