People who have never heard of bread sauce?

I know what it is, but think it’s disgusting. It looks (and tastes) like someone’s eaten it once already.

Yes, we do. Bechamel, cheese sauce, parsley sauce, custard, gravy, all thickened with starch, which is essentially what bread sauce is. The bread is in crumb form and added to warm liquid to thicken it up a bit. The liquid is milk infused with onion, bayleaf, cloves, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Then you add butter and possibly cream as well. It's gorgeous, nothing like bread and milk, and definitely nothing like vomit (I assume people who say this are thinking of baby posset). It tastes savoury, creamy and buttery with a nice subtle note of spice (not chilli hot, obviously).

I didn't grow up with it. Tried it for the first time a few years ago, made from Delia Smith's recipe. My daughter and I love it so it's become a staple at Christmas ever since. My son has become a convert too. (They are in their 30s.)

Always have bread sauce with turkey at Christmas and with chicken the rest of time.
Ancient recipe , think it was supposed to mop up the meat juices 👍

Yup! We were actually talking about it over dinner- that it's an English/ Welsh thing. What does it taste of?

I’m Scottish and have never eaten it or been at a meal where it was available (but don’t like the idea of it anyway).

I’ve heard of it but I’ve never seen it. I’m 58, southwest. I know how it’s made and it sounds horrible.

Yeah - never heard of it until recently. I grew up in Scotland and it was never a thing.

I see it in Supermarkets all over London now

I'm from London, husband is from Devon and we are in our 50s, we always have it with our turkey on Chirsmas Day and were wondering today why we don't make it more regularly to go with our roast chicken as we love it. Having said that, our 20yo daughter only tried it for the first time today (and liked it)

Bread sauce makes a Christmas dinner . Always have it, and love it on cold turkey sandwiches too

I grew up on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border, so it's definitely a thing over there! I've since moved away, and never heard anyone mention it until now, so I assumed that it was another regional thing! (Mind you, my mother has never brought it in the bag of 'regional cuisine' that she brings whenever she visits).

My grandmother makes it. I don't recall it ever making it to the Christmas table, but to be fair, it probably just didn't fit; it was hard enough trying to squeeze that much food and that many people around the table. I've never eaten it anywhere other than at her house, so it could be a generational thing around there.

Warm, clovey, peppery, creamy, buttery milky bread.

Reading this has made me realise there are variances too. We never have had bay leaves or nutmeg in it. Just copious cloves and pepper. Quite happy with our receipe so not likely to add them.

As others have said, the taste is difficult to describe but its not bits of bread floating in milk.

Have heard of it, but never had it and would have no idea what it went with! (Probably would nt have recognised it in your pic)

Irish here and was rared on bread sauce AND gravy on Christmas dinner.

I know what it is, but I've never seen it in real life. I've never lived (or eaten Christmas dinner) south of the Midlands.

Always had it growing up, mother from Staffs. Always needed it too to provide moisture to her dried out cooking

I love it but unfortunately all my children have become repulsed by it and it's very difficult to make in one person portions.

I'm from the South East, and have heard of it, but have never (I think) eaten it. Then again, I'm not a great sauce-eater in general.

Heard of it but never had it.
Is it a Southern thing?

Lol I don't think it's a bad thing

When I was a kid my gran used to make me my own bowl of bread sauce as it was my favourite thing about Christmas dinner.
London !

Born and bred (bread!) in London and have always had bread sauce with all sorts of roasts though it's thought of as a poultry thing. It's so easy to make and tons better than out of a packet but would rather have that than not at all. Also happily have bread sauce with jacket potatoes and sausages, plus piccalilli. My son loves it too.

For those who've never tried, it's not just milky bread ... once it reduces and thickens, it becomes rich, creamy and savoury with hints of onion and cloves. You infuse the milk with clove studded onion but also add black peppercorns, bay leaves and a pinch of ground mace to this mixture. The milk's then strained, breadcrumbs mixed in and the sauce simmered with a good knob of butter added too.

I rarely ever have a roast in a pub or restaurant because bread sauce is hardly ever included yet for me it makes the meal. I specifically chose pheasant years ago in a restaurant simply because it was served with bread sauce!

Same here. I'm Scottish, I'e also heard of brandy butter but never had it.

It's a perfect bit of savory stodge, if you haven't tried it use Delia Smiths recipe as a starting place.

Fuck off. Bread sauce is beautiful thing and is, or should be, beyond class...

Christmas dinner would be ruined without bread sauce in my opinion. I went shopping with a friend the other day and she’d never heard of it.
She wanted me to explain what it tasted like which I found hard though!
I’m from London, she’s from Sussex.