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[breeze]

Just asking?

Does anyone actually like it?

[littleminnie]

Lol.  Never tried it.

[bramble]

Hate it. Always reminds me of slops I used to give to the dog!

[dazned]

I love it !   MMMMM

[Maryjane]

It's my families favourite bit of Christmas dinner.

I make my own from scratch milk bought to boil and a whole onion and bay leaves left to infuse for a few hours , then white bread crumbs added a few hours later.

Reheated tomorrow. 😊

[Maryjane]

Forget butter and pepper also

[Pennyfarthing]

I love it and My Xmas Day wouldn't be complete without it!  . I get a big onion, peel it and poke loads of cloves in it.  PUt in saucepan of milk with a big bay leaf and bring to boil. Remove from heat, put lid on to allow flavours to soak in. I make some fresh breadcrumbs and add these later and add salt and pepper and some fresh cream. Delicious!  Would never eat packet bread sauce though. Had it once at a function and knew it was from a packet.

[cubagirl]

Never tried it myself, but really doesn't appeal. Mind you until recently didn't like oatmeal stuffing or cranberry sauce.  Having both tomorrow. 

[Dorothy]

"What's the point of bread sauce?"  Seriously?!!!!!     You are asking the wrong question - you should be asking "What's the point of a turkey dinner?"  The answer, of course, is to provide a suitable backdrop for the bread sauce, which is the main event 

(Oh, and in case you hadn't worked it out from the above, yes, I do like bread sauce    )

[ariadne]

I love bread sauce myself   

Ariadne xx

[CLKD]

  +      what's the point of a turkey …….. they were grown for Thanksgiving  .  Beef was the main C.mas meal for years ………

We have pheasants.  The others enjoy bread sauce and stuffing as well as white sauce over their pudding with brandy 

[Pennyfarthing]

I've just been reading up about bread sauce and it's been around since medieval times when they realised  that stale bread thickened white sauce very nicely.

I love it cold the next day with cold meats and salad.

[Pennyfarthing]

Being the eldest child and considered sensible I always seemed to land the task of making the breadcrumbs for the stuffing and bread sauce. I can still remember grazing my knuckles! It seems to be an old traditional 'trimming' to the Christmas meal that you either did or didn't have. I love it, and eat it cold too, it moistens up a turkey sandwich a treat. DIL had never seen it when she came to ours for the first time .. but Christmas dinners are like that aren't they?

OH's family had a tradition of serving cold gravy on Boxing Day which sounds revolting but was actually like a very rich sauce which was absolutely scrumptious on the side of cold cuts. In our family we also served butter beans with our turkey dinner - never ever heard of anyone else doing that. Its the memories of these peculiar traditions that makes the season so special to look back on now.

And yes PF - packet breadsauce doesn't hit the spot. We had some in our local carvery last week and it was completely tasteless! Done properly its a lovely savoury white sauce - I don't prefer it to cranberry, I now like that equally - but cranberry was a complete unknown to me in my childhood.

I've never heard of butter beans with turkey either.  I lived in Leicester for several years and there they have a tradition of eating pork pie for breakfast on Xmas Day and then they'd have a late lunch maybe at 3pm.   I thought this was most strange because in my family we had a very light breakfast as we ate around 1 pm. I also know lots of people who have massive fry ups on Xmas Day but we never do that as I start cooking very early.

[CLKD]

Yorkshire Pud was eaten as a starter in order to fill us up B4 the scant main meal 

[CLKD]

Oh yes, crispy edges with good gravy?