Bread Sauce

• 1 medium-sized onion
• ½ pint (300 ml) milk
• 1

Peel the onion and put into a saucepan along with the milk, bay leaf and mace, if using it. Bring just to the boiling point, then draw off the heat, cover, and allow flavours to infuse for 15 minutes. Discard onion, bay leaf and mace.

Add the breadcrumbs and set the pan in a warm place (on the corner of the cooker) for at least 15 minutes, until breadcrumbs soak up milk. Add the butter,