mornay sauce

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   onion-flavored creamy cheese sauce with egg yolk and grated cheese

   Broadercheese sauce

Questions about mornay sauce

What does mornay sauce mean?

mornay sauce means "onion-flavored creamy cheese sauce with egg yolk and grated cheese".

Is mornay sauce a common word?

mornay sauce is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.