Old-fashioned bread sauce | The Cook and the Curator | Sydney Living Museums

Ingredients

• 1 small onion
• 1 bay leaf
• 4 whole cloves
• 1 blade of mace (optional)
• 6 whole peppercorns
• strip of lemon peel (pith removed)
• pinch cayenne pepper (optional)
• 500ml (2 cups) milk
• 90g (1 1/2 cups) breadcrumbs (made from 2-day-old bread, crusts removed)
• 60ml (1/4 cup) pouring cream
• pinch of ground white pepper
• good pinch of ground nutmeg