Bechamel sauce

Bechamel Sauce, also known as white sauce, is a basic sauce which is used as
the base for other sauces, such as mornay sauce and cheese sauce. The basic
ingredients are flour, boiled milk, and butter.

The following recipe is taken from The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste,
Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes. This is part of a
project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This recipe
reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century. Update as necessary.

Ingredients

   * butter,
   * ham,
   * veal,
   * carrots,
   * shallot,
   * celery bay leaf,
   * cloves,
   * thyme,
   * peppercorns,
   * potato flour,
   * cream,
   * fowl stock.

Prepare a mirepoix by mixing two ounces of butter, trimmings of lean veal
and ham, a carrot, a shallot, a little celery, all cut into dice, a bay
leaf, two cloves, four peppercorns, and a little thyme. Put this on a
moderate fire so as not to let it colour, and when all the moisture is
absorbed add a tablespoonful of potato flour. Mix well, and gradually add
equal quantities of cream and fowl stock, and stir till it boils. Then let
it simmer gently. Stir occasionally, and if it gets too thick, add more
cream and white stock. After two hours pass it twice slowly through a tamis
so as to get the sauce very smooth.

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