Bread sauce…..yes or NO!

I follow a recipe from Lady Claire MacDonald (Hotel Owner from the Isle of Skye and wonderful cook two whole onions studded with cloves and use day old baked bread (not steamed) as crumbs with freshly ground black pepper and 1/2tsp salt. Remove from heat and stir in butter cut in bits (if a bit stiff add little more milk to your liking.

I also follow her recipe spiced red cabbage with ground allspice and wine vinegar. My vegetarian son does all the other cooking (including the turkey)!!!

Stuffing balls, bread sauce, cranberry sauce , gravy etc. They allhave their part to play in a festive turkey Christmas meal. I have a very dry mouth and bread sauce enables me to enjoy my roast potatoes, meat and brusel sprouts etc much much more

Yes and daughter in law used Delia smith reciepe andgave me the remander to freeze.

Chicken was always a once a year treat in the 50s/60 s. Never saw salmon apart from tinned usually pink, until much later because of the cost of both.
Now very cheap and available due to different farming methods.
On the other hand Beef of various cuts, including minced, was more commonly eaten,
As for bread sauce, it’s a total mystery to me. I might google.

My DF, who died over 50 years ago, always made the bread sauce at Christmas and whenever we had roast chicken. (This was not often, chicken like salmon being an expensive luxury in those days.)
He made it by simmering an onion studded with cloves in milk, then removing the onion and adding bread crumbs, in fact as per Mary Berry. And it's something I do to remember him. Fortunately DH loved it too.

love it. going to daughters for xmas dinner and there is just me and her who like it. yummy

Love bread sauce, we have it every christmas, my brother will be making it this year. We do have cranberry & cauli cheese too. Sadly there's hardly ever any left after seconds on christmas Day.

I only cook it with turkey or the rare occasion we might have a pheasant, but thinking we should have some with roast chicken too.

Quite agree Butterandjam!
Love bread sauce - homemade of course. A good excuse to have turkey / chicken !!

Nannan2

Yes must be made to original recipe stud an onion with a few cloves in milk. & after its infused remove &discard.Then add the white breadcrumbs etc.Leaving in onion makes it more like onion sauce.Still, each to their own if thats how you like it.🙂

It is not more like onion sauce if the onion is chopped very finely.

Nannan2

I cant have cranberry though because i take Warfarin- so i have redcurrant.(and lashings of bread sauce.) Leftover bread sauce is yummy heated up poured over chips or leftover roasties or bubble/squeak.

Oh, I'm pleased I read that, Nannan2 because someone recommended cranberry juice for DH but he takes a blood thinner (not Warfarin).

I'll go and cross it off today's shopping list.

Thank you!

I use Delia Smith’s recipe as well. Have always made in advance and freeze til the day. Delicious and very easy.

Yes must be made to original recipe stud an onion with a few cloves in milk. & after its infused remove &discard.Then add the white breadcrumbs etc.Leaving in onion makes it more like onion sauce.Still, each to their own if thats how you like it.🙂

I cant have cranberry though because i take Warfarin- so i have redcurrant.(and lashings of bread sauce.) Leftover bread sauce is yummy heated up poured over chips or leftover roasties or bubble/squeak.

Terribull- its not supposed to be lumpy if it is youve done it wrong.I love it- so does 2 of my sons and one of my grandsons absolutely loves it.

lizzypopbottle

We love bread sauce. We use an ancient Delia recipe. My daughter loves it so much she'd eat the whole lot!

Yes, just looked it up and that is the one I've made.

We love bread sauce. We use an ancient Delia recipe. My daughter loves it so much she'd eat the whole lot!

We always make it with milk, very finely chopped onion, a few cloves and some white bread( no crusts). Just all boiled together until it thickens. I love it and every year I say why do we only have this once a year! That and cranberry sauce made from scratch and gravy.

Only home made, but if I have a choice I have cauliflower cheese

Not for me, but my son-in-law loves it so I make it each year.

Must have bread sauce with poultry. 😆

Boil onion in milk and salt and pepper, cloves if desired. Add breadcrumbs and shredded suet
if available. Mix together and it’s the best ever. Love it.

Never had it. Not on our Christmas radar.

I dont see the point of it.Gravy..yes.But cant bear it!!!

I don't eat poultry so I've never had bread sauce served the "traditional" way but I was once offered it with baked gammon. Ohh, yeuk! It looked disgusting and tasted worse. Never again!

Home made bread sauce is lovely. I like to have just a little bit of "crunch" to the chopped onions

Infused milk with finely chopped onion peppercorns and bay leaf and mace. I include the crust in the breadcrumbs,started by accident but now on purpose. Love it.

Love it and make my own with gluten free breadcrumbs. My innovations include cardamom as well as nutmeg and cloves, and I blend the onion into the spice infused milk before adding the bread. Cream and butter are non-negotiable.