Bread Sauce

Name: Bread Sauce
Yield: Makes about 2 cups (480 ml)
Ingredients: ½ very small shallot; 2 blades mace; 1 cup (40 g) good-quality dense white bread, cut into 1-inch (2.5-cm) cubes; Boiling water, to cover; 1¼ cups (300 ml) milk; Generous pinch of salt; White pepper; 2 tablespoons half-and-half

Preparation info

Makes about
2 cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

About

Bread sauce was the usual accompaniment to roast chicken in the Downton Abbey era. Done badly, it’s like eating wallpaper paste. Done well, it is very satisfying and rich, though certainly not as sophisticated as a fancy French jus.

Ingredients

1 cup (40 g) good-quality dense white bread, cut into 1-inch (2.5-cm) cubes
Boiling water, to cover
½

Sauce
Vegetarian

Method

Put the bread in a heatproof bowl and pour in boiling water to cover. Let soak for 5–10 minutes. Remove the bread and gently squeeze out as much of the moisture as you can.

Meanwhile, put the shallot and mace blades into a tea infuser (or tie them in a square of cheesecloth). Pour the milk into a small saucepan, add the tea infuser, and heat over medium heat to just below boiling. Remov