Bread Sauce

Ingredients

• 1/2 pint bread-crumbs
• 1/2 pint new milk
• 1 small saltspoonful salt
• 1/2 small saltspoonful mace
• cayenne
• 1 ounce fresh butter
• 2 spoonsful good cream

Instructions

1. Pour quite boiling milk over the bread-crumbs and cover closely with a plate.
2. Let the sauce remain for twenty or thirty minutes.
3. Transfer the soaked mixture into a delicately clean saucepan and add salt, pounded mace, a little cayenne, and fresh butter.
4. Keep it stirred constantly over a clear fire for a few minutes.
5. Mix in the cream, give it a boil, and serve immediately.