Bread Sauce

Bread Sauce
 
Don’t waste those last bits of bread lurking in the bread bin. Stale bread makes the best breadcrumbs! Break them up and put them into a blender to make into breadcrumbs. Store in a jar until you need to use them. 
 
Home made breadcrumbs with some of our reusable honeywraps (instead of clingfilm)
 
Breadcrumbs can last in an airtight container for a couple of weeks in a pantry or up two months in a fridge. You can also freeze them! 
 
If you want to make your bread sauce now, it also freezes well and you can have it ready-to go for Christmas Day. Here is a great traditional recipe from Delia Smith.
 
Ingredients
  • 110g breadcrumbs
  • 1 large onion
  • 15-18 whole cloves or freshly grated nutmeg
  • 1 bayleaf
  • 8 black peppercorns
  • 570ml milk
  • 50g butter
  • 2 tablespoons double cream
  • Salt and freshly milled black pepper

Recipe

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.

 

 


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