Béchamel sauce Béchamel sauce Béchamel sauce (; ), also known as white sauce, is made from a white roux (butter and flour) and milk. It has been considered, since the seventeenth century, one of the mother sauces of French cuisine. It is used as the base for other sauces (such as Mornay sauce, which is Béchamel with cheese). Balsamell or Besciamella is the Italian equivalent of the French Béchamel: a very simple white sauce of flour, butter and milk. The sauce was originally from renaissance Tuscany and was known as "Salsa Colla or Colletta" ("glue sauce") because of the gluey consistency of
Bread and butter pudding added to the mixture. In American cuisine it may be called "Cold Bread Pudding". A similar dish which is popular in Egypt, made with either bread or pastry, and including pistachio nuts, and without eggs, is called "Om Ali". Bread and butter pudding Bread and butter pudding is a traditional type of bread pudding popular in British cuisine. It is made by layering slices of buttered bread scattered with raisins in an oven dish, over which an egg custard mixture, made with milk or cream and normally seasoned with nutmeg, vanilla, and/or other spices, is poured. It is then baked