Delia Smith's ultimate Christmas dinner recipes: Traditional bread sauce

By DELIA SMITH


Your Christmas turkey should be served with all the trimmings. This bread sauce is the real deal.

The real deal: Traditional bread sauce flavoured with cloves and bay leaves

SERVES 8

INGREDIENTS
110g (4oz) freshly made white breadcrumbs
15-18 whole cloves or a whole nutmeg
1 large onion
1 bay leaf
8 black peppercorns
570ml (1pt) Channel Island or whole milk
50g (1¾oz) butter
2 tablespoons double cream
Seasoning


METHOD
Cut the onion in half and stick the cloves in it (how many you use is a personal matter - I happen to like a pronounced flavour of cloves). If you don't like them at all, you can use some freshly grated nutmeg instead.

Place the onion studded with cloves, plus the bay leaf and the peppercorns, in a saucepan with the milk. Add some salt, then bring everything up to boiling point.
Take off the heat, cover the pan and leave in a warm place for the milk to infuse for 2 hours or more (see 11.45am in the turkey recipe below).

Extracted from Delia's Happy Christmas by Delia Smith, published by Ebury at £25. © 2009. To order a copy for £18.99 (p&p free), call 0845 155 0720. For more recipes, visit www. deliaonline.com

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