Bread

Ingredients

• a large piece of crumb from a stale loaf
• half a pint of milk
• an onion
• a blade of mace
• a few peppercorns
• a piece of butter
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Put bread crumb in a saucepan with milk, onion, mace, and peppercorns.

2. 2

   Boil for a few minutes, remove onion and spice, mash bread smooth, and add butter and salt.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 180. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bread. Put a large piece of crumb from a stale loaf into a sauce- pan, with half a pint of milk, an onion, a blade of mace, and a few peppercorns in a bit of cloth. Boil them a icw minutes, then take out the onion and spice, mash the bread ver}' smooth, and add to it a piece of butter and a little salt

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