to not understand the appeal of bread sauce

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Just find it weird to put wet bread on your lovely roast dinner...???!!!!

I have a feeling that it might go back to years ago when it was used to 'bulk up' meals with leftover bread... or am I wrong...

For those that love it can I recommend making enough so that you can add it to homemade soup?

Best bit of Christmas is Boxing Day soup, made from turkey carcass, left over veg, left over gravy, stuffing and bread sauce...Just chuck it all in one big stock pot.

I love it but only the coleman's packet sauce. The fresh one definitely tastes like wet bread.
The same as horseradish, love the jar stuff but once made Jamie Oliver fresh horseradish cream- vile.

I agree with @ooherrmissus14 - it's got to be the cheap packet stuff. Best bit of a roast!

I love it. People who think it's gross, do you think that about white sauce, bechamel, cheese sauce etc, which are very similar? Milk thickened with flour, or milk thickened with bread, made from flour.

I love bread sauce, and enjoy making it.

I've never thought of it as being either a southern or northern thing. I'm from the south west originally.

I hadn't even heard of it until I joined MN. I don't see the appeal tbh.

@SwedishEdith

Is it quite bland? It sounds like the kind of thing you'd knock up for a fussy child.

It shouldn't be bland. You flavour milk and cream with bay, pepper and nutmeg and/or cloves, by simmering the spices with an onion. Then you mix in enough bread to make it come together. It should taste like Christmas spices, but nicely savoury.

I've never tried it. Had never heard of it until recently. I'm 29! Born and bred northerner.

Looks like sick and tastes rank. I dont know many people who have it. Is it more of an English thing?

It's lovely - it''s savoury, creamy, deciptively light and fresh tasting and, most importantly to me (as whatever the antithesis is of having a Sweet Tooth is), tastes of Christmas spices without the corruption of vast amounts of sugar.

It goes well with Duck, presumably Goose (not that posh to have ever tried it) and other poultry. Oh, and cold smoked Gammon, as it cuts through the richness of those meats or the intensity of a glaze.

In vaguely related foods, one of the only sweet things I truly like is Bread Pudding, as you don't need to add much in the way of sugar to it. I wonder if liking the two is connected in any way?

Never had it OP, what does it taste like

I love it, whether it’s home made, faux-fresh in a tub, or just in a packet. I’m the only person that eats it but I insist upon it.

I made my own from scratch one year. I hadn’t quite got the timings right for the rest of the meal, so it congealed a bit and I used more milk to thin it out. Somehow it just kept expanding. The the leftovers congealed again and the same thing happened. I ended up with loads of it. It was some sort of witchcraft. I reckon that’s how Jesus fed the 5000 with two loaves.

@ooherrmissus14 Are you my good friend? She had never come across anything other than cheap packet bread mix when I met her and (as usual) made my grandmother's recipe bread sauce - crunchy on the top, unctous and oniony and clovey underneath. She was distinctly underwhelmed and still prefers the wallpaper paste which I think the packet stuff both looks like and tastes like.
Each to their own!

I love bread sauce.

Love bread sauce... I make my own. I am northern though...

Boak 🤢

@Hobbes8

I love it, whether it’s home made, faux-fresh in a tub, or just in a packet. I’m the only person that eats it but I insist upon it.

I made my own from scratch one year. I hadn’t quite got the timings right for the rest of the meal, so it congealed a bit and I used more milk to thin it out. Somehow it just kept expanding. The the leftovers congealed again and the same thing happened. I ended up with loads of it. It was some sort of witchcraft. I reckon that’s how Jesus fed the 5000 with two loaves.

Everlasting bread sauce sounds like some kind of heaven!

I hate it , i can't stand the thought of soggy bread , makes me heave .
Husband loves it , he's northern too! , i have bought a packet mix which he turned his nose up to , have now bought posh version .
I actually dread serving it , seeing it on the plate turns my stomach .

I've never had it & hate bread pudding so it really doesn't appeal. I always thought it was something to hide the dryness of turkey? (disclaimer: I've never had turkey for Xmas so I know nothing)

@Rosecottage888

Rank! But I do have mint sauce on every roast dinner, whatever the meat

Mint sauce is the true sauce of the gods.

I knew DH was the one as he's the only person I've ever met that smothers their roast in as much mint sauce as me

Had it by M&S last year and it was honestly absolutely gorgeous.

YABU, Delia’s bread sauce is great. It’s a traditional accompaniment to game birds/poultry.

You may be right about its origins; I think it dates back hundreds of years- the cloves and nutmeg imply that’s the case. Would always be served with birds like pheasants in any country house or at a good restaurant serving traditional English food.

Love bread sauce!

We never had bread sauce at Christmas growing up, never was served it eating Christmas dinner out. Never came across it until SIL introduced us to it and tried to convert us. Agree with pp who say it is wet bread. Vile stuff, I'll stick with my gravy and cranberry sauce thanks.

It perhaps has its roots in older recipes - Portugal for example has a series of thick soups called Açordas which are thickened with bread, the simplest of which is not much more than bread sauce flavoured with garlic and coriander instead of onion, cloves and bay; and also migas, which are more solid, more like bread sausages.