Bread sauce

Bread sauce

A bread sauce is a warm or cold sauce which is thickened with bread.[1] [2] It is a savoury sauce and is usually served with a main meal.

The sole survivor of the medieval bread-thickened sauces, the traditional British bread sauce is made with milk, butter or cream, and bread crumbs, flavoured with onion, salt, cloves, mace, pepper, and bay leaf, with the fat from roasting often added too. It typically accompanies domestic fowl such as turkey or chicken. The use of slightly stale bread is optimal, making it an economical way of using up leftover bread. The sauce is easy to make and uses readily available ingredients.

The basic recipe calls for milk and onion with breadcrumbs and butter added as thickeners.

Turkish cuisine also features a cold sauce made from breadcrumbs mixed with pounded walnuts or hazelnuts and served with chick pea salads and, most famously, with chicken or duck as Circassian chicken.

History

Bread sauce can be traced back to at least medieval times, 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.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities - Nigella Lawson - Google Books
  2. ↑ Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery - A. G. Payne - Google Books
  3. ↑ "The Kitchen Thinker: Bread sauce". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, December 13, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.