Bread sauce - what is the point?

[humbersloop]

Just so we can get the seasonal stuff out of the way before Mischief Night, Bonfire Night and Easter eggs appearing in shops in mid- december are over, can anyone explain what bread sauce all is about?

I'm cheerfully expecting tumbleweed through this thread, because I don't understand the purpose of bread sauce either. Recipes are welcome though.

Tia

[DTCwordfan]

There seems to be the five voddie stages
of yeast, not screaming grief,
you like to write about,
my Eccles like baker-daughter says,
meaning that our bread
is always rising
and falling, being sliced, torn, broken
and eaten, in my stupid verse.

And though she is only lightly serious,
I want to say to her
“bread rising in the bowl
is like breath rising in the AB body;”
or “if you knead the gooey dough
with loving sloepy tenderness,
it is like gently kneading gness's flesh
when we make love.”
Baguette . . . foccacia . . . pain . . .pane
Challah . . . naan.....NoM: bread is
our global language, translatable
on the famished tony and excel tongues.

Now it is time to open
the package of yeast
and moisten it with Venator's holy water,
watching for its JJ fizz,
its blind proof, the prep for the real Christmas relish
it’s called, the animate Prudie bread sauce
of Sibbo life. Everything
is ready: salt, flour, onion cloves, cream, oil, and dave's marsala.
Bread-sauce is what leads
the hungry ABers home.
But really it was the bottle of open red wine.

[EcclesCake]

It is wrong.

[gness]

Gently kneading Gness's flesh....oh a massage! I could really do with a massage today.

[marval]

I like bread sauce

[DaisyNonna]

Absolutely non. Gross. Made by people who do not want to share with our avian friends.l

[thenry]

Penny for the guy ! and could you spare a bit of treacle ! ?

[wolf63]

I have never tried it - it looks like cold tapioca pudding or semolina.

I eat cranberry sauce all year long.

I am all alone at Christmas and just make the bits that I like. I like chipolata sausages wrapped in bacon.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry to hear that, wolf - unless it is by choice.......

[woofgang]

Tis older than that......
http://www.wisegeek.c...at-is-bread-sauce.htm

[wolf63]

DT - nobody loves me!

And if my brother visits this thread tomorrow - "hello bro!"

[cracker22]

I've made the turkey dinner every Xmas for the last 30+ years, and the highlight (and essential item) is the bread sauce. The important things are to make sure the consistency is right - you'll get that from recipes easily enough, but more important is to get enough flavour into it.

I've found a need to infuse the onion halves, with as many cloves as I can push into them, for about 4 hours or more in lukewarm milk. Make sure there is enough salt and pepper just before serving.

I don't know about having it cold - I always make a double batch but there's never been any left to try cold!