Bread sauce

Name: Bread sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500 ml (16 fl oz) milk; 1 onion, peeled and halved; 3 cloves; 50 g (2 oz) butter; 3 bay leaves; pinch of freshly grated nutmeg; 100 g (3½ oz) fresh white breadcrumbs; sea salt and pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Food

By Mark Hix

Published 2005

About

Ingredients

1 onion, peeled and halved
3 cloves
3 bay leaves
50

Method

Stud one of the onion halves with the cloves, pushing each one through a bay leaf into the onion. Finely dice the other onion half.
Heat half of the butter in a saucepan, add the diced onion and cook until soft. Add the milk, studded onion half, nutmeg and seasoning. Bring to the boil, lower the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and leave to