Name: Bread Sauce
Yield: Makes 600 ml/20 fl oz
Ingredients: 2 bay leaves; 500 ml/18 fl oz milk; 1 onion, halved; 6 cloves; 100 ml/3½ fl oz double cream; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 200 g/7 oz white bread, a couple of days old, crusts removed

Preparation info

Makes
600 ml

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Eat

By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

About

Steaming, and stained dark brown with gravy, bread sauce adds beauty and ballast to whatever it touches. Which is usually chicken or turkey, as any other meats tend to overpower its subtle, clove-scented allure. The key lies in infusing the milk with onion and spices.

Ingredients

1 onion, halved
6 cloves
500 ml/18 fl oz

Method

Stud the onion with the cloves and put it into a saucepan with the milk, bay leaves, salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, then take off the heat and leave to stand for 30 minutes.

Tear the bread into small bits and blitz in a food processor to make rough crumbs. Remove the onion and bay leaves from the milk, add the breadcrumbs and bring gently back to the boil, then simmer over a low he