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my sister's cheese sauce

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mmccance avatar
Recipe by
Marcia McCance
@mmccance
Stone Mountain, GA

This sauce is excellent for making au gratin potatoes OR mac and cheese. My Sister is a great cook. She raised five kids on a budget and some of her recipes are really simple, easy, and dare I say "cheap"? I like that her au gratin potatoes are excellent with this and that her kids raved about her mac and cheese made with the SAME sauce!! Enjoy

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yield 5 to 6
method Stove Top

Ingredients For my sister's cheese sauce

  • 1 1/2 c
    milk
  • 1/2
    stick of butter
  • 8 oz
    pkg of american cheese
  • to taste
    salt and papper
  • FOR A THICKER SAUCE, USE LESS MILK!!

How To Make my sister's cheese sauce

  • 1
    Warm the milk, add the butter and melt, bring to slow boil and slowly add the slices of American cheese. (Salt and pepper to taste.)
  • 2
    Whisk the milk and cheese mixture and continue cooking until it makes a thick pourable sauce. If you need to thicken it more, combine a little cold milk with a tablespoon of corn starch and then add to sauce and cook for 1 or 2 minutes until thickened.
  • 3
    For au gratin potatoes: Slice 5 lbs unpeeled potatoes and par boil them in salted water until about half done (they will finish cooking in the oven). Pour the thickened sauce on the potatoes and stir -- Bake 350 F for 30 minutes, or until potatoes are fork tender
  • 4
    ALTERNATIVES for au gratin potatoes: Susan said she sometimes puts in a little cubed ham or deli ham cut in small pieces, and if she does, she also changes the sauce to be 3/4 C milk and 3/4 C chicken broth with everything else the same.
  • 5
    For Mac and cheese: Prepare your pasta of choice, and pour the sauce on. You're done. (Her kids rave about her mac and cheese.)
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