Bread Sauce

Ingredients

• one pint of milk
• one onion
• half a pint of sifted bread-crumbs
• a teaspoonful of butter
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• a saltspoonful of pepper
• a grate of nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Boil the milk with the onion for five minutes, then remove the onion and thicken the milk with the bread-crumbs.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a frying pan, add coarser crumbs, and brown them.

3. 3

   Flavor the sauce with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and serve with game.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The easiest way in housekeeping and cooking (1881) by Helen Stuart Campbell, page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one pint of milk, or milk and water, or water alone. With milk it is called cream roux, and is used for boiled fish and poultry. Where the butter and flour are allowed to brown, it is called a brown roux, and is thinned with the soup or stew which it is designed to thicken. Capers added to a white roux — which is the butter and flour, with w^ater added — give caper sauce, for use with boiled mutton. Pickled nasturtiums are a good substitute for capers. Two hard- boiled eggs cut fine give egg sauce. Chopped parsley or pickle, and the variet}' of catchups and sauces, make an endless variety ; the white roux being the basis for all of them. Bread Sauce. For this sauce boil one point of milk, with one onion cut in pieces. When it has boiled five minutes, take out the onion, and thicken the milk with half a pint of sifted bread-crumbs. Melt a teaspoonful of butter in a frying- pan ; put in half a pint of coarser crumbs, stirring them till a hght brown. Flavor the sauce with half a teaspoon- ful of salt, a saltspoonful of pepper, and a grate of nut- meg ; and serve with game, helping a spoonful of the sauce, and one of the browned crumbs. The boiled onion may be minced fine and added, and the browned crumbs omitted. SAUCES AND SALADS. 175 Celery Sauce. Wash and boil a small head of celery, which has been cut up fine, in one pint of water, with half a teaspoonfui of salt

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