bread sauce


noun
  1. a milk sauce thickened with breadcrumbs and served with roast poultry, esp chicken

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How to use bread sauce in a sentence

  • When done, dish up with clear gravy, and hand bread sauce in a tureen with it.

    Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de Salis
  • But nevertheless she would feed herself in the middle of the day, having a roast fowl with bread sauce in her own room.

    Orley Farm | Anthony Trollope
  • "bread sauce is so ticklish; a simmer too much and it's clean done for," Mrs. Baker said with a voice of great solicitude.

    Orley Farm | Anthony Trollope
  • To recipe for bread sauce (see No. 184) add one-third cup grated horseradish and the juice of half a lemon.

  • It should, however, always be eaten with chip potatoes and bread sauce, and not in the company of cold lettuce.

    Birds in the Calendar | Frederick G. Aflalo