Bread sauce…..yes or NO!

I've made it every year since Delia brought out her Christmas Book. You do need to buy decent bread for it. I decrust a small farmhouse loaf, cut it into slices and leave them for a day to go a bit stale - better to absorb all that milk and cream. Pop the unused breadcrumbs into the freezer for the next time we have a roast chicken. Delia's Cranberry sauce is also another must do.

Thank you everyone for the recipes. I don’t waste any leftover bread and have loads of breadcrumbs in the freezer so I’m halfway there. Might try the cloves. I have clove powder and whole cloves.

No thank you.

Astitchintime

Absolutely NOT! Chuck it in the bin with the cauliflower cheese………..YUK!!!!!

The cauliflower cheese can stay, the bread sauce can go though.

Love it! It's the best part of a Christmas dinner!

Just why would you want wet bread on a delicious festive meal?

kittylester

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

Bread sauce freezes well.

Nutmeg is nice if you add a sprinkle to mashed potatoes with a pat of butter and mix well.

henetha

Can't stand it I'm afraid. Wish i did but it's horrible.

I agree, I won’t say what I think it looks like 🤢

kittylester

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

Bread sauce freezes well.

Oh that sounds good. I had never thought about making it in advance, very helpful. Thank you

I love it. You’ve reminded me to make some.

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

Bread sauce freezes well.

I love it, and make it with the clove studded onion. It goes on to the table along with stuffing, cranberry sauce and apple sauce.

The trio of sauces with some Brussels sprouts and red cabbage would do me nicely for Christmas. Everyone else is welcome to the rest.

My Mum always made it for Christmas dinner and I loved it. I’ve never made or bought any and you’ve made me wonder why…?!

I might have to add it this year!

My father liked it but IIRC nobody else did! I think he used to make it himself.
I’ve never made it, and we’ve never had it with Christmas dinner.

I'm another Delia Smith Multi-Clove-Recipe-Follower for that glorious AMBROSIA aka Bread Sauce. And I'm the only one in the family who likes it. Which suits me just fine. All the more for me...

Not for me I’m afraid. The thought of anything with wet bread involved makes me want to throw up. I could never make DH’s favourite bread pudding, or bread and butter pudding for that very reason.

I've never seen the point but don't eat meat of any description

No.

I love it so long as it’s a properly made, home made one.
Haven’t had it for a few years though.

I’m on team yuk.

Tut. I never allowed my children to say yuk about anything that other people were going to eat.
If I had I’d have said it about bread sauce. Therefore never made in my house which was bad luck on everyone else I suppose.
My mother made it every year, and she stuck cloves in an onion I remember.

I make bread sauce the traditional way as kittylester noted however with cloves, nutmeg reminds me of a dessert, milk rice pudding and not too much of the black pepper.
Maybe others find it tasteless because it hasn’t stood long enough with the onion and cloves.
My French family love the bread sauce, as they do brandy butter.

I love it and was the official breadsauce maker for the family but since becoming gf that has stopped. Have given up trying to make a decent gf one.

They make their own now but to my recipe.

My recipe is
Very finely chopped onion
Blitzed fairly old bread
Milk
Black pepper - lots.
Lots of butter.
Cream and nutmeg to finish.

The traditional recipe had milk infused with a clove studded onion. The onion and cloves are removed and then the milk used.

None of us are fans of cloves though so i 'invented' this..

Love it! But I'm the only one who eats it!!

Love it and make it from scratch every year! I use freshly grated nutmeg rather than cloves.