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bread sauce

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In keeping with the architecture of eggplant parm, I build the sandwich in layers — bread, sauce, eggplant, Parmigiano-Reggiano, eggplant, sauce, Parmigiano-Reggiano, mozzarella, bread.

From Washington Post May 25, 2022

The pop-star-turned-vicar's winning menu featured a roast partridge with caramelised pear, cabbage, celeriac, chestnut and lardons with bread sauce, pear gravy and five gold ring potatoes.

From BBC Dec. 24, 2021

Get the Scotch roast sirloin of beef with Yorkshire pudding or the roast breast of chicken with stuffing and bread sauce, and ask for a gravy boat.

From New York Times May 17, 2018

I felt so appalled when it happened, like someone had taken my Christmas presents away before I sat down for Turkey and bread sauce.

From The Guardian Oct. 16, 2015

Serve them up with bread sauce in a basin, and fix one of the principal feathers of the pheasant in its tail.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

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