Bread Sauce

Name: Bread Sauce
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 1 pint/570 ml milk; About 12 cloves; 1 medium onion, skinned; 2 oz/56 g butter, cut in pieces; Salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper; ½ lb/225 g white breadcrumbs, from a day-old loaf, weighed when crumbed; ½ lb/225 g white breadcrumbs, from a day-old loaf, weighed when crumbed; Salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper; Salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

This is bread sauce as we like it – if you prefer it without the flavouring of cloves, leave them out of the recipe. As with so many things, bread sauce is very much a matter of personal taste.

Ingredients

1 pint/570 ml milk
1 medium onion, skinned
About 12

Sauce
Vegetarian
Summer

Method

Put the milk into a saucepan with the onion, stuck with the cloves, and warm it over a gentle heat till it forms a skin. Take the pan off the heat, and leave for a couple of hours, to infuse the milk well and truly with the onion and clove flavours. Then remove and discard the onion, stir in the breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, and pieces of butter. The butter won’t melt now, but don’t worry, it w