White Sauce for Fish Balls (Fiskeboller)

Recipe From: Ruthanne Hassing (Kirsten's mom)

Notes:  Fishballs are a Norwegian food.  They're ground up fish mixed with flour into a smooth round cake.  They make them in baby sizes.  Fishballs are often served in a white sauce with steamed vegetables, often carrots and baby potatoes.  You can make them yourself but the canned ones are just as good.

This also makes a good basic white sauce.  The basic formula for white sauce is 2 Tbl fat + 2 Tbl thickener (usually flour) for every cup of liquid.

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup flour
1 1/2 cups milk OR
fishball liquid drained from the fishball can + powdered milk

Instructions

Melt margarine in skillet.
Slowly mix in flour.
Take skillet off heat and slowly stir in milk.  Can use the liquid from the fishball can mixed with powdered milk instead, if desired.

Put fishballs in liquid sauce until hot.