Sauce (Bread) (My Mother's Recipe.)

Ingredients

• 1 pint milk
• 1 cup bread
• 1 teaspoonful butter
• 1 small onion
• 1 blade mace
• pepper
• salt
• white pepper
• 1 spoonful cream

Instructions

1. Peel a small onion and cut it in quarters. Simmer it in 1 pint of milk with a blade of mace till tender, then take it out.
2. Stir a cup of crumbled crumb of bread into the boiling milk and beat it with a fork very smoothly.
3. Add the seasoning, a teaspoonful of butter, and a little white pepper and salt. Give one more boil.
4. To enrich the sauce, a spoonful of cream may be added. Time altogether, half an hour.
5. Serve with turkey, chickens, partridge, and the like.