Bread For Bread Sauce

Asked by FluffyB. Answered on 12th January 2020

Full question

The quantity of bread for the My Mother's Bread Sauce recipe seems too much, 800 grams is nearly a full loaf and there’s no way to get it in a pan let alone make a sauce. We had to discard half the bread and add loads more milk and water. The result was a huge volume of very thick bread paste that tasted okay. Surely it’s 80 grams (3 or 4 slices) not 0.8 kg?

My Mother's Bread Sauce

By Nigella

Our answer

Nigella's recipe for My Mother's Bread Sauce (from NIGELLA CHRISTMAS) is, as the title suggests, a recipe based on Nigella's mother's own recipe. Everyone has a personal preference for the thickness of bread sauce and this version is a thicker, spoonable sauce with a fairly large volume (as can be seen from the photo).

It is possible to halve or quarter the recipe for smaller qunatities. If you prefer a thinner, more pourable sauce then you could reduce the amount of bread to 200-250g, though this will not be the version served by Nigella's Mother. However 80g of breadcrumbs is too little to thicken 1 litre of milk and the sauce would be very thin.