The Roux Sauce debacle

Father is making Lasagne. He is quite good at Lasagne actually but he does have issues with Roux sauce (or is it Béchamel? anyway). He doesn’t like making the cheesy sauce because it gets lumps in it and he panics. Make it slowly I say, add the liquid in gradually. So the butter goes in, then the flour, then all the milk and… oh look! Lots of lumps! So father stirs and stirs ..’Kizzie! the lumps! They won’t go away!’ The lumps refuse to go – they are not blending in with the sauce so matter what. I suggest he gets a sieve and pour out the lumps…’oh good idea, thanks’. Off the goes to the sink, pours the sauce into the sieve, the sauce goes into the sink, down the plughole and there are the lumps in the sieve starring at him. Oh Shit. I put my apron on.