My Mother's Bread Sauce | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Name: My Mother's Bread Sauce | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson
Ingredients: 800 grams good-quality white loaf (sliced thickly and left to stale overnight, see below); 1 litre full fat milk; 1 onion; 4 cloves; 2 bay leaves; 1 teaspoon whole white peppercorns; 2 teaspoons Maldon sea salt flakes or 1 teaspoon table salt; 2 mace blades or heaped 1/4 teaspoon ground mace; 30 grams butter; 2 tablespoons double cream (optional); fresh nutmeg

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Just the smell of the milk, infusing on the hob, giving off that familiar scent of onion, mace, bay and clove, lets me know it is Christmas.

Keywords

Vegetarian
Egg Free
Nut Free
Christmas
Comfort
Bread

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Ingredients

800 grams good-quality white loaf (sliced thickly and left to stale overnight, see below)
1 litre full fat milk
1 onion
4 cloves
2 bay leaves
1 teaspoon whole white peppercorns
2 teaspoons Maldon sea salt flakes or 1 teaspoon table salt
2 mace blades or heaped 1/4 teaspoon ground mace
30 grams butter
2 tablespoons double cream (optional)
fresh nutmeg