Bread Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 pint milk
• s pint bread crumbs
• 2 oz. butter
• 1 onion
• 6 cloves
• 1 teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   Skin and scald the onion, stick the cloves into it, and put it in a saucepan with the milk and salt.

2. 2

   Let stand for half an hour, or until the onion has slightly flavoured the milk.

3. 3

   Take out the onion and cloves.

4. 4

   Add the bread crumbs gradually, stirring all the time; next add the butter.

5. 5

   Let the sauce simmer for five minutes for the bread to swell, stirring until it is smooth and thick.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BREAD SAUCE. 1 pint milk. s pint bread crumbs. 2 oz. butter. 1 onion. 6 cloves. 1 teaspoonful salt

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