Name: Bread Sauce
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: 2 allspice berries; 60 g/2 oz day-old white breadcrumbs; 2 tablespoons butter; salt; 2 tablespoons cream; 6 whole peppercorns; 3 cloves; ½ litre/¾ pt milk; 1 small onion; 1 bay leaf; 1 blade mace; 1 clove garlic

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Leaves from The Walnut Tree

By Ann Taruschio and Franco Taruschio

Published 1993

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Ingredients

1 small onion
½ litre/¾ pt milk
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Method

Stick the cloves into the onion. Put the milk into a saucepan and add the onion, garlic, mace, bay leaf, peppercorns and allspice. Simmer the milk and spices for 15 minutes and leave to infuse for 1 hour.

Strain the milk over the breadcrumbs, add the butter and salt, and stir into the mixture. Return the sauce to the heat and cook over a gentle heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally

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