Bread sauce

Name: Bread sauce
Yield: Makes 350 ml (12 fl oz).
Ingredients: 400 ml (14 fl oz) milk; 1 onion; 2 cloves; 4 thick slices of white bread; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 tbsp cream; 2 tbsp butter; 1 bay leaf

Preparation info

Makes
350 ml

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

An old English favourite with roasted game. At its simplest it can be used to nap a couple of roasted quail or small spatchcock. It is also quite divine with a simple roast chicken.

Ingredients

2 cloves
1 onion
400 ml (14 fl oz

Sauce
Vegetarian

Method

Stick cloves into the onion and place in a saucepan with milk, bay leaf, sea salt and pepper. Bring milk to just below boiling point, then reduce heat and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Cover, and remove from heat. Leave for an hour to infuse. Cut off crusts and whizz bread to soft white crumbs in a blender. Measure out 1