Bread Sauce
Gran’s Recipe
Add to 3/4 pint of milk,
1 onion stuck with cloves,
mix with salt and pepper and 1/2 oz. butter;
4 to 6 oz fine white bread crumbs -- add to milk etc. after 1/2 oz or so.
Use double boiler. Add bread crumbs until thick enough. Add a pinch of nutmeg.
BBC Version
Ingredients
Method
Delia Version
INGREDIENTS
METHOD
Cut the onion in half and stick the cloves in it – how many you use is a personal matter; I happen to like a pronounced flavour of clove.
If you don't like them at all, you can use some freshly grated nutmeg instead. Place the onion – studded with cloves – plus the bay leaf and the peppercorns, in a saucepan together with the milk. Add some salt then bring everything up to boiling point. Take off the heat, cover the pan and leave in a warm place for the milk to infuse for two hours or more.When you're ready to make the sauce, remove the onion, bay leaf and peppercorns and keep them on one side.
Stir the breadcrumbs into the milk and add 1 oz (25 g) of the butter. Leave the saucepan on a very low heat, stirring now and then, until the crumbs have swollen and thickened the sauce – about 15 minutes. Now replace the clove-studded onion, the bay leaf and the peppercorns and again leave the pan in a warm place until the sauce is needed.
Just before serving, remove the onion and spices. Reheat gently then beat in the remaining butter and the cream and taste to check the seasoning.
Pour into a warm serving jug.
Add to 3/4 pint of milk,
1 onion stuck with cloves,
mix with salt and pepper and 1/2 oz. butter;
4 to 6 oz fine white bread crumbs -- add to milk etc. after 1/2 oz or so.
Use double boiler. Add bread crumbs until thick enough. Add a pinch of nutmeg.
BBC Version
Ingredients
- 600ml milk
- 50g butter
- 1 onion , chopped
- 6 cloves
- 6 peppercorns
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 thyme sprigs
- 100g white breadcrumbs
- 4 tbsp single cream or mascarpone
- pinch nutmeg , freshly grated
Method
- Simmer the milk, butter, onion, cloves, peppercorns, garlic and herbs in a pan for 20 mins.
- Strain and return the liquid to the pan. Add the breadcrumbs and simmer for 3-4 mins. Stir in the cream or mascarpone.
- Add nutmeg, season and serve.
- Can be made up to 3 days in advance and heated up on the hob or microwave on Medium for 3 mins.
Delia Version
INGREDIENTS
- 4 oz (110 g) freshly made white breadcrumbs (a two-day-old white loaf with crusts removed will be hard enough to grate, but the best way to make the crumbs is in a liquidiser, if you have one)
- 1 large onion
- 15-18 whole cloves or freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 bay leaf
- 8 black peppercorns
- 1 pint (570 ml) breakfast milk
- 2 oz (50 g) butter
- 2 tablespoons double cream
- salt and freshly milled black pepper
METHOD
Cut the onion in half and stick the cloves in it – how many you use is a personal matter; I happen to like a pronounced flavour of clove.
If you don't like them at all, you can use some freshly grated nutmeg instead. Place the onion – studded with cloves – plus the bay leaf and the peppercorns, in a saucepan together with the milk. Add some salt then bring everything up to boiling point. Take off the heat, cover the pan and leave in a warm place for the milk to infuse for two hours or more.When you're ready to make the sauce, remove the onion, bay leaf and peppercorns and keep them on one side.
Stir the breadcrumbs into the milk and add 1 oz (25 g) of the butter. Leave the saucepan on a very low heat, stirring now and then, until the crumbs have swollen and thickened the sauce – about 15 minutes. Now replace the clove-studded onion, the bay leaf and the peppercorns and again leave the pan in a warm place until the sauce is needed.
Just before serving, remove the onion and spices. Reheat gently then beat in the remaining butter and the cream and taste to check the seasoning.
Pour into a warm serving jug.