URGENT HELP PLEASE!! Making CHEESE SAUCE - run out of BUTTER! :-(

[HellyBelly]

Making kiddies dinner now and only got 8g of butter for my cheese sauce, usually have 15g.

Any idea's????

PLEASE

You can use flora or other soft marge or veg oil instead.

Do have marg (stopped using a while back). Only oil I have is olive oil - ok??

Sorry DON'T have marg!

Um... just use less butter? For some reason I have this notion that the fat is mainly there as a "carrier" for the flour or you'd never get it to mix with the milk...

Oil will do-for now.

olive oil will be fine

LOL @ measuring your flour and butter! I just lob it in!

8g How do you measure 8g???

I just lob a tbsp butter/marg and a couple of flour and hope for the best

I think she must have a pair of those tiny extremely accurate scales,like drug dealers have.

Or so I've been told.....

ooh yes

I'll have an eighth of stork and half an ounce of flora

lol

i think it should be fine with a bit less butter, the fat in the milk and cheese will lubricate too but you'll have to add the milk very carefully or it'll go unimaginably lumpy.

I know - I chuck it in for us but when it's the kids, they have such a small amount I weight it. Tbh, don't make it that often as my mindee doesn't like it - just keep doing it every now and then to see if she's changed her mind .

ANYWAY, started shouting at dh upstairs for not telling me he'd put out the last butter and he told me he had - it was hidden! Found it and they are now eating so thanks!

Think I would have needed oil if not as I do the butter and flour first, then add the milk then cheese so it would have been a bit too lumpy.

Thanks again for the quick replies