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Bread Sauce

From The complete cook (1908).

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A historical recipe

The complete cook, by Lilian Whitling and University of Leeds. Library (1908).

United Kingdom

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

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a tablespoonful of butter
  2. a pint of milk
  3. One small onion

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.

Method

  1. One teacupful of white bread- One small onion.
  2. crumbs.
  3. Half a tablespoonful of butter.
  4. Half a pint of milk.
  5. Salt and pepper.
  6. Two cloves.
  7. One tablespoonful of cream.
  8. Three peppercorns.
  9. Method.
  10. — Put the milk in a pan on the fire with the onion with the cloves stuck into it, and the peppercorns.
  11. Bring it to boiling point, then shake in the crumbs, add the butter and let it simmer very gently for about ten minutes.
  12. If it is too thick, add a little boiling water or more milk.
  13. Remove the cloves, onion, and peppercorns, season it with salt and pepper, add the cream and serve it in a hot tureen.
  14. Note.—\i a cheaper variety of this sauce is preferred leave out the cream and butter.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From The complete cook (1908), printed page 289, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21538244

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.