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bread sauce

British  

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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On Christmas day she will continue to miss her dad's bread sauce and an evening Baileys or cheese board, but he is going to prepare "Jen-friendly" alternatives.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2022

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

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

Mabel and Dora demurred, but Aldred was so insistent that in the end they agreed to let her include both the soup and the bread sauce.

From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela

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