Sauce for a Turkey
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- 1 loaf bread
- cold water
- pepper corns
- salt
- 1 onion
- 1/4 pound butter
- 2 spoonfuls thick cream
Instructions
- Cut the crumb of a loaf of bread in thin slices and put it in cold water with a few pepper corns, a little salt, and onion.
- Then boil it till the bread is quite soft and beat it well.
- Put in a quarter of a pound of butter and two spoonsful of thick cream, and put it in the dish with the turkey.