Method.—Blanch the onions (as in preceding recipe) and boil until tender.
Then rub through a hair sieve.
Make some plain white sauce (see [recipe]), and add to it the cream and pulped onion.
Bread Sauce.
- Ingredients—2 oz. of bread crumbs.
- ½ pint of milk.
- 6 peppercorns.
- 2 tablespoonfuls of cream, or ½ oz. of butter.
- A small piece of onion.
Method.—Steep the onion and peppercorns in the milk, and put the milk on to boil.
Then remove the onions and peppercorns, and sprinkle in the crumbs.
Set the sauce by the side of the fire for six minutes, and then heat to boiling point, adding either the cream or butter.
Salt must be added to taste; also a little cayenne.