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Bread Sauce

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. two ounces of bread-crumbs
  2. Peppercorns
  3. a pint of milk
  4. Salt
  5. Onion
  6. an ounce of butter

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Stew a small onion and six peppercorns in half a pint of milk for twenty minutes, remove the onion and peppercorns, and add .the crumb of a penny French roll, or two ounces of bread-crumbs, an ounce of butter, and salt to taste ;
  2. let it stew for a quarter of an hour, then put it on the fire and stir with a wooden spoon until it boils ;
  3. add two table-spoonfuls of good cream and serve.
  4. If you wish it to be extra good, use cream instead of milk.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The Pytchley book of refined cookery and bills of fare (1885), printed page 13, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21528056

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.