I’ve been asked to help a friend in need with a bread sauce recipe. Simple sauce’s like this is very easy to make. So once you have found a recipe that works for you, make sure you write it down in your kitchen scrap book, which we have spoke about before. My scrap book is huge and full of years of combinations and variations of allsorts.  Its never to late to start one and its great to look back at when you stuck for an idea or cannot remember what you did last time with a recipe.

Anyway back to the task at hand, Bread Sauce:

You will need: 1 onion peeled halved and studded with 6 cloves, 1 bay leaf, 6 peppercorns, 568ml of milk, 200g fresh breadcrumbs, 25g butter and 4 tbsp double cream.

What you need to do is place the onion, bay leaf, peppercorn and milk in a saucepan and bring to the boil, then turn off the heat and leave this to infuse for 30 minutes at least. Then strain the milk into a clean saucepan, add the breadcrumbs and bring this to a simmer. Make sure you stir continuously until the sauce thickens. Then stir in the butter, cream and season to your taste.  Then pour into your favourite sauce boat and present to your table and guests.

Do you make your own sauces or do you buy a packet? Alot of my friends use to buy packets but now they all make homemade sauces.