bread sauce
{{Short description|Sauce made with milk and bread crumbs}}
A bread sauce is a British warm or cold sauce made with milk, which is thickened with bread crumbs,{{cite web|url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bread_sauce|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228171759/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bread_sauce|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 28, 2017|title=Definition of bread sauce in English|website=Oxford Dictionaries}} typically eaten with roast chicken or turkey.{{cite web|url=https://www.nigella.com/recipes/my-mothers-bread-sauce|first=Nigella|last=Lawson|title=My Mother's Bread Sauce|website=Nigella.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/h/heston_s_bread_sauce.html|title=Heston's Bread Sauce|first=Heston|last=Blumenthal|website=waitrose.com|access-date=2017-12-28|archive-date=2021-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204124903/https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/h/heston_s_bread_sauce.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/bread-recipes/beautiful-bread-sauce/|title=Bread Sauce|first=Jamie|last=Oliver|website=JamieOliver.com}}
Recipe
The basic recipe calls for milk and onion with breadcrumbs and butter added as thickeners, seasoned with nutmeg, clove, bay leaf, black pepper and salt, with the meat fat from roasting often added too.{{cite web|url=https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/british/traditional-bread-sauce|title=Traditional Bread Sauce|first=Delia|last=Smith|date=9 November 2015|publisher=deliaonline.com}}{{cite web
|url=https://www.goodhousekeeping.co.uk/institute/cookery-videos/savoury-sauces-and-condiments/how-to-make-bread-sauce
|title=How to make bread sauce|website=goodhousekeeping.co.uk|date=27 June 2016}} The use of slightly stale bread can also be used.{{Cite web |title=Nigellas bread sauce |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zm2q4xs}}
History
A survivor of the medieval bread-thickened sauces, it typically accompanies domestic fowl such as turkey or chicken.
Bread sauce can be traced back to at least as early as the medieval period, when cooks used bread as a thickening agent for sauces. The utilisation of bread in this way probably comes from cooks wanting to use up their stale bread who discovered that it could be incorporated within sauces to make them thicker.{{cite web|url=https://life.spectator.co.uk/2017/12/in-praise-of-bread-sauce/|title=In praise of bread sauce|date=21 December 2017|publisher=Spectator|access-date=28 December 2017|archive-date=28 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228171731/https://life.spectator.co.uk/2017/12/in-praise-of-bread-sauce/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8194243/The-Kitchen-Thinker-Bread-sauce.html |title=The Kitchen Thinker: Bread sauce |publisher=The Telegraph |access-date=16 February 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/12/23/505741097/eat-ye-bread-sauce-while-ye-may-brits-go-medieval-on-christmas-day|title=Eat Ye Bread Sauce While Ye May: Brits Go Medieval On Christmas Day|website=NPR|date=23 December 2016|publisher=npr.org|last1=Richards|first1=Alison}}{{cite web|url=https://www.foodsofengland.info/breadsauce.html|title=Bread Sauce|website=www.foodsofengland.info}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tuor2vcVtiQC&q=medieval&pg=PA196|title=Milk: Beyond the Dairy : Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1999|first=Harlan|last=Walker|date=28 December 2017|publisher=Oxford Symposium|via=Google Books|isbn=9781903018064}}
See also
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References
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