People who have never heard of bread sauce?

[TheBlueRobin]

Sent a photo of my Christmas dinner to a friend. She asked what the white stuff was and whether it was horseradish.

I said 'No, bread sauce.'

She said she had never heard of it. Asked her family and they had never heard of it either.

Wonder it's a regional thing? Her family are from Somerset but also some from Lancashire. My partner is Welsh and never heard of it either. I'm from the Midlands.

I thought it was fairly universal? Dependent on preference ofc.

YABU - I've not heard of bread sauce /it's not a common thing.
YANBU - of course I've heard of it

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.

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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)

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

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).

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

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 👍

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.)

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

Bread sauce is quite thick and not runny, so it’s ok to have gravy as well!

Londoner here and it's my absolute favourite - ready made packet only though. My mum used to try doing homemade and it's just not the same.

I’ve heard of it but never seen it, same with family and friends (Yorkshire)

My mother would never serve a roast chicken without it, and obviously for Turkey as well.

One year my parents booked Christmas at a hotel in Wales near Ds1. Husband of DS2 had a fit wondering if there would be bread sauce. He took advice to ring the hotel and enquire. Apparently there wouldn’t be bread sauce. The conversation ended with
“I thought you were a service industry”
“That’s right. You get what you’re served”. 😂😂😂
So he went into gloom/moaning bitterly that there would be no bread sauce. DH had the bright idea of suggesting he bring his own supply of bread sauce and pass it off as our toddler’s baby food. Thus my DS2 had to make bread sauce and he took his little pot and asked the hotel to warm up our toddler’s food and all was well. He had his bread sauce!!
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From Scotland but live in England
Never heard of it before I moved south
My husband loves the filthy stuff

Me too.

I'd struggle to identify it on a table, and it doesn't sound that appealing tbh.

I mean, I guess there's bread in it...and some type of sauce🤷‍♀️

Exactly soggy bread is all that the mind pictures. Not nice.

One of the best bits if a Christmas dinner. And perfect in a turkey sandwich.

Our family (birth and marriage) is a real mix of class and geography. All do bread sauce at Christmas. Although I drew the line at the gluten free rice milk version.

People are weirdly squeamish. It just a creamy, thickened sauce with mild cloves and nutmeg savoury spices. Perfect on a dry meat like turkey. With cranberry, stuffing and gravy.

Although why there is a need to ruin a perfect chipolata with a rasher of bacon I don't know.

But bread sauce is putting the carb at the centre of the sauce rather than being used as a thickner.

It doesn't taste predominantly of bread. It's an odd name. Like calling bechamel flour sauce, which no doubt many on this thread would take literally and refuse to eat.