This is a really great thing to make if you are contributing to a Christmas lunch or dinner, as bread sauce is a hassle and how many people make it alongside everything else? (Don’t answer that). This is delicious and, if it’s the only thing you’re making, not too much of a bother to do.
Aromatic brown bread sauce
This amount will do for about 10 people
1 large onion
150g wholemeal bread, crusts on
6 cloves
4 cardamom pods
some nutmeg
salt and pepper
75g butter
900ml milk – whole or semi
300ml double cream
Preheat your oven to 130C.
1 Chop your onion up really small.
2 Tear the bread into small pieces – about the size of a 50p coin and put in an ovenproof dish with the onion
3 Put the cloves and the cardamom into a small piece of muslin or cotton, tie with string and chuck into the dish. You could just put these free into the sauce if you don’t have a piece of muslin or any kind of substitute but you need to make sure you get them all out again, otherwise you might find yourself biting into a clove or a cardamom pod, which isn’t nice.
4 Grate over a generous sprinkling of nutmeg, salt and pepper and dot with butter. Mix the milk and the cream together and pour over the bread and onion. Cover tightly with foil or a lid and then cook for 2 hours(!). Stir once or twice during cooking.
December 23, 2015 at 9:23 am
Good idea. Cranberry sauce is even easier to make and everyone is always impressed that you’ve bothered.
December 23, 2015 at 4:16 pm
God, yes it’s SO easy. And you can avoid it being too sweet as well. My grandmother, who cooked appallingly, always ‘nobly’ did cranberry sauce at Christmas and I was always impressed that she produced something edible. Only recently did I discover that even Granny would have been hard-pressed to cock it up. Bread sauce she would have burnt, though, for sure.
December 23, 2015 at 10:34 am
I quite like cloves, or maybe a clove, but I’ll remove the cardamoms, and will definitely be using this method. Thank you.