Bread sauce…..yes or NO!

I just always made it how my Nan made it I wouldn’t consider a packet thingy or a delia or anyone else My Nan never fancied it up with cloves or any other flavourings in it just simply bread onions butter and milk
I love it

My mother used to make it every year, with cloves stuck in the onion. I love it, but I haven't made any for years. When my daughter was little the only part of Christmas dinner she would eat was turkey and breadsauce.

Those of you who think bread sauce is tasteless haven't tried the real deal obviously.

I've made it the traditional way with the clove studded onion. These days when I make bread sauce I add ground mace and a bay leaf to the milk to infuse.
We all love it at our house.

Couldn’t imagine Christmas dinner without my homemade bread sauce. I do the cloves in onion, fresh breadcrumbs, bay leaf etc and it is heavenly! I went out to a pre Xmas lunch once and it was very obviously packet bread sauce …… 🤮🤮

I don’t doubt the wonderful recipes passed on in families for bread sauce,
but it has never featured on our Christmas dinner table.
I like a fruit sauce with Turkey - either cranberry or apple.

I love it the way I make it. Soften chopped onion in butter, add creamy milkand boil up to infuse the onion flavour. Leave the onion in! Stir in the breadcrubs and mix up, adding salt and black pepper to taste.

NO CLOVES. They remind me of my childhood dentist surgery.

BlueBelle

Avalon how I make it is so simple I chopped my onions and boil till soft then throw away the water add milk and add crumbled bread not too new few days old no crusts and add pepper and sauce to toast easy peasy
Terribull it’s not that kind of sauce we always have cranberry as well and it’s not lumpy because its just bit thicker than cheese or parsley sauce

My Mum used to infuse a whole onion studded with cloves in the milk used for bread sauce, together with a bay leaf and some peppercorns.

Love it, and I think I’d have a family riot on my hands if I didn’t make it at Christmas (Delia’s recipe, which is the best, imho). Far from tasteless, and even further from “wet bread”.

I’m also very partial to a proper bread and butter pudding. Not on Christmas Day though.

Love it the way Mum made it. I gave up after a while because it was only me who ate it. One son-in-law makes it from scratch and we’re going there for Christmas dinner. Yum!

Love it. It was a tradition and DH became a convert. However, like others have said, I only like the home made one, shop bought is horrible. Allira, I use a similar recipe. It is from the old Good Housekeeping recipe book.

Substitute wallpaper paste.

kittylester

*Mokryna*, I put grated nutmeg in lots of savoury things especially if they are cheese based.

Bread sauce freezes well.

ditto re nutmeg ( freshly grated) in savoury foods. The wonder of nutmeg is that you don't add enough to be identifiable by scent or smell as " there's nutmeg in this". Instead, it secretly/ magically intensifies the flavour of the other ingredients.

A little nutmeg grated into fried mushrooms, mmmmm

Yes , in fact I’m making it to go with a three bird roast of pheasant, mallard and partridge on Saturday as I’m having my sister for “ our “Christmas” - get together as we aren’t seeing each other over Christmas.

I think it goes best of all with game.

I love it! I make it like kittylester does, finely chopped onion and no cloves but loads of butter. Any left over bread gets blitzed and kept in the freezer for bread sauce. Whenever I eat cooked chicken I make the sauce. I often have it instead of gravy. Any left over I use with chopped chicken and sometimes cheese, as a pie filling with pastry or mash topping.
Feeling hungry now!

Well, I'm on team, yeah, yippee, huzzah!
We all love bread sauce, oh, apart from DH. Now please don't have a fit of the vapours but I actually like the packet-stuff, it delicious & I make mine with vegan milk so that I can stuff my face with it. They other-lot (The carnivores) will tolerate this or I wouldn't blooming well make it ....open the packet.
It's lovely with Brussels & mint sauce too. Together with the gravy & a bit of Yorkshire pud, it's the little stodgy- star of the whole meal. Oh, that & the sherry.

never tasted it , never fancied it

I once went out to eat at a carvery. I was pleased to see a dish of bread sauce so smothered my meat with it, only to discover that it was horseradish, which I hate!

My mum never liked it, so we never had it.
I don't think I have ever eaten it and tbh I don't fancy it either.

100% yes. Love it with turkey and chicken. Always make my own. The packet ones are really salty.

i make it every year from scratch. i use the recipe from the dairy diary cookbook which i've had for many many years but i add more breadcrumbs as i don't like a thin sauce.
i also make my own cranberry sauce from scratch with a "spot" of port in it.
but i've never attempted making stuffing. this year i'
ve bought a packet of chestnut and cranberry stuffing - thank you paxo.

I have bought a white loaf for the first time in years so I can make bread sauce in advance of the big day.
Thanks for the prompting!

Love my own home made bread sauce, clove stuffed onion, bay leaf etc. Packet stuff is yuk.

Something that ive never bothered with, been doing meals for 47 years and no one has ever mentioned it, but each to their own

Oh! I absolutely adore it. Bread sauce and the stuffings are the best part of Christmas dinner😛