Bread sauce

It's such a shame that North Americans don't understand this wonderful and necessary delicacy to go with turkey. It is such a crucial part of the enjoyment of any self-respecting Christmas dinner. I introduced a few Canadians to it this year and they all looked suspiciously at it, poked at it and said "what is this, oatmeal?'

Sigh.

How would one go about making bread sauce? Have you a recipe?

It appears to similar to a Bechamel Sauce. Plenty of recipes abound.

I do have an excellent recipe. Others add cloves but I prefer to let the onion speak for itself.

1 cup breadcrumbs (pref. brown, they hold up better to the milk and add a nutty flavour of their own)
3 tbsp butter
1&1/4 cup milk
1 large onion, quartered

Combine ingredients in saucepan and bring slowly to a boil. Remove from heat and let sit for 30 mins on counter. Refrigerate for a few hours then remove the onion and reheat to serve, stirring in seasoning (S&P) to taste.

Yum. Great with any roast poultry.

If you like the taste of cloves and think they would be good, stud the onion pieces with a few whole cloves before adding to the milk and bread mix.

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It appears to similar to a Bechamel Sauce. Plenty of recipes abound.

Well -- yes, I could google. But if WA has a particularly stunning recipe in mind, that is always better. How do I know if what I choose randomly from the internet is the real thing, as accolade worthy as professed?

Thanks, BTW, WA -- that looks like something that may make an appearance someday soon come dinner time.

I had never heard of it either and had to go look.

It's strange that bread sauce is served with turkey, there is already so much meat on the bird (I think, traditionally it was meant to make the meat go further). However, the mere mention of it made me drool, so I went out and bought a pheasant today! Good recipe, WA. I tend to do the old pinning two bayleaves to an onion with a clove trick, and I use white pepper for seasoning.

Roll on Sunday lunch

Sounds like something you could have with a Quorn roast or Tofurky, too. Not as much meat on those Tofurkys as there is on a turkey.

In the days of yore, turkeys were not as meaty as they are now. In addition, families were bigger.

I had bread sauce for the first time for X-mas dinner, it was pretty good! Then again, many of the party-attendees were from the UK..so..bread sauce and Scottish balls..yum

I'm glad to hear my recipe was a success, hope everyone who tried it enjoyed it!

Were there any other strange things you had never encountered before that anyone tried for the first time this year?