Bread Sauce

Ingredients

• some stale bread
• a fairly large piece of butter
• a very little ground mace
• just a suspicion of nutmeg
• pepper
• salt
• the milk
• an onion pierced with a clove

Method

1. 1

   Crumble stale bread into a basin, add butter, ground mace, nutmeg, pepper, and salt.

2. 2

   Boil milk with an onion.

3. 3

   Pour the milk over the bread mixture, cover, and boil when required, stirring well.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The book of plain cooking (1904) by Ethel Archer, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bread Sauce The longer bread sauce is in the way of pre- paration the better. Should you require it PLAIN COOKING hi for an evening meal, it is well to prepare the dish in the morning. Crumble some stale bread into a basin, adding thereto a fairly large piece of butter, a very little ground mace, and just a suspicion of nutmeg, pepper, and salt. Put the milk on to boil, according to the quantity of sauce you require, not forgetting an onion pierced with a clove

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