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Bechamel

Bechamel \Bech"a*mel\, n. [F. b['e]chamel, named from its inventor, Louis de B['e]chamel.] (Cookery) A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bechamel

1796, from French béchamel, named for Louis XIV's steward, Louis de Béchamel, marquis de Nointel (1630-1703), who perfected it. Gamillscheg identifies him as a great gourmet of the time ("eines bekannten Feinschmeckers des 17. Jhdts.").

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bechamel

n. (alternative spelling of béchamel English)

WordNet
bechamel

n. milk thickened with a butter and flour roux [syn: white sauce, bechamel sauce]

Usage examples of "bechamel".

Make a bechamel sauce, after the usual manner, of the butter, flour, seasonings, cream and stock.

Knowing which side to duck to can mean the difference between bathing the babe in bechamel sauce and burning your butt on a Bessemer converter.

Prepare Boiled Halibut according to directions previously given, and serve with Bechamel Sauce, seasoning with salt, pepper, and grated nutmeg.

Flake with a fork, and mix with Bechamel Sauce to which has been added the yolks of four eggs well-beaten, half a cupful of grated Parmesan cheese, and lemon-juice and grated nutmeg to season.

French gunboat, Bechamel, disrupted the newts dance on the island of Rawaiwai with three shots.

When green and unripe, Gooseberries are employed in a sauce, together with bechamel, and aromatic spices, this being taken with mackerel and other rich fish, as an acid corrective condiment.

Place in a stewpan with one cup of hot bechamel sauce, one-half breakfast-cupful of cream and about one-quarter of an ounce of butter.

Becca managed the julienne soup, but the whole steamed salmon, served with lobster cakes and cucumbers bechamel, was quite another matter.

I said flour didn't I, if we need it or not just to be safe there's no earthly reason you can't make a perfectly smooth bechamel sauce with this new processed flour Lily, you can try it again tonight with, write down cauliflower yes, we haven't had cauliflower it should be quite cheap now it's that time of year after all, isn't it.

But Liir was terrified, and the cook threatened to disappear and leave the group traumatized by an inability to do a really topnotch bechamel sauce in the wilderness.