Buttered Toast Bread Sauce Recipes

BUTTERED TOAST

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Trim the crusts off four thin slices of loaf bread. Leave the slices whole or cut each slice (to serve as a base for certain savories such as angels on horseback, deviled chicken livers and so on) into uniform rectangles.
• Melt one tablespoon of butter and butter the bread on both sides. Arrange the bread pieces on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake six minutes or until lightly browned on the bottom. Turn the pieces and continue baking one or two minutes longer until browned on the second side.

BUTTERED TOAST BREAD SAUCE

Steps:

• In a toaster or under a grill, toast the bread slices on both sides until dark brown. Leave to cool, then pulse in a food processor to make rough crumbs.
• Heat half the butter in a saucepan and cook the onion gently for about 10 mins until just starting to brown and turn sticky. Add the bay leaf and thyme, and pour over the milk. Mix in the spices and season with a sprinkling of salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for 5 mins.
• Remove the herbs, then stir in all but a handful of the crumbs and cook over a low heat, simmering gently, until thickened. For a very smooth sauce, blitz with a hand blender in the pan. Can be chilled for up to 2 days or frozen for up to 2 months, then reheated to serve.
• While the sauce simmers, melt the remaining butter in a small frying pan and cook until sizzling and nut-brown. Throw in the remaining crumbs and cook in the butter until really crisp, then turn off the heat.
• Add the cream to the sauce and heat for a few mins more, then tip into a serving dish. Spoon over the crisp crumbs and any remaining nutty butter to serve.

TOASTED BREAD-AND-BUTTER PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Butter both sides of bread slices and arrange in 1 layer on a large baking sheet. Bake in middle of oven, turning over once, until lightly toasted, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a rack to cool.
• Whisk together half-and-half, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and salt until sugar is dissolved. Halve toasted bread slices diagonally and arrange triangles in rows, overlapping slightly, in a buttered 3-quart shallow baking dish.
• Pour custard evenly over toast and let stand 15 minutes.
• Bake pudding in a hot water bath until custard is set 2 to 3 inches from edges but still trembles in center, 50 to 60 minutes. (Custard will continue to set as it cools.) Serve warm.

BREAD PUDDING WITH BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• Divide bread cubes and raisins between two greased 8-oz. ramekins or custard cups. , In a small bowl, whisk the egg, milk, water, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Pour over bread mixture. , Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes., Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, melt butter. Stir in the sugar, egg yolk and water. Cook and stir over medium-low heat for 4 minutes or until sugar is dissolved and mixture comes to a boil. Remove from the heat; stir in bourbon if desired. Serve warm with bread pudding.

BEST BREAD PUDDING WITH VANILLA SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 2-quart baking dish.
• In a mixing bowl, whisk 3 eggs, white sugar, 2 tablespoons of light brown sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/4 cup of butter, and 3 cups of whole milk together, and gently stir in the bread cubes and raisins. Lightly spoon the mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until browned and set in the middle, 50 to 55 minutes; cover the dish with foil after 30 minutes to prevent excessive browning. Let the pudding stand for 10 minutes before serving.
• For vanilla sauce, whisk 1/2 cup of light brown sugar, the flour, a pinch of cinnamon, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of melted butter, 1 1/4 cups of whole milk,and salt together in a heavy saucepan until smooth. Heat over medium heat, whisking constantly, until thickened and the sauce coats the back of a spoon, 10 to 12 minutes. Stir in the vanilla extract. Pour sauce over warm bread pudding, or serve on the side in a bowl.

BUTTERED-TOAST SWISS PATTY BURGER

Steps:

• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a medium skillet over med-low heat.
• Add the onion and thyme, season with salt and pepper, and cook until the onion is lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
• While the onion is cooking, combine the beef and Worcestershire sauce in a large bowl; season with salt and pepper and mix thoroughly.
• Score the mixture into 4 equal portions and form them into patties slightly thinner at the center than at the edges for even cooking and to ensure a flat surface.
• Heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over med-high heat until very hot.
• Cook the burgers, turning once, 10 minutes for medium.
• Top the burgers with the cheese for the last minute of cooking, tenting the skillet with foil, if you like, to help the cheese melt.
• While the burgers are cooking, toast the bread, then spread with the remaining 2 tablespoons softened butter.
• Stir the mustard and a splash of chicken stock into the onions.
• Stir in the parsley, then remove from the heat.
• Place a burger on each of 4 buttered toasts and top with some onions.
• Set the remaining buttered toast on top.

BUTTERED TOAST TRIANGLES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• Spread the bread slices on a flat surface and brush them on one side with butter. Stack the slices and cut off the crusts of each. Cut the slices diagonally in half to make triangles.
• Arrange the triangles, buttered side up, on a baking sheet. Place in the oven and bake five minutes. If the triangles are not sufficiently browned, you may turn them over and continue baking one or two minutes or to the desired degree of brownness.

SARDINES ON BUTTERED BROWN BREAD

Steps:

• Lightly toast the bread, then cool to room temperature. Spread each toast generously with butter.
• Distribute the sardines among the toasts. (Cut large sardines in half lengthwise; leave small sardines whole.)
• Sprinkle each toast lightly with salt and grind pepper directly over the sandwiches. Garnish with chopped dill and slivered scallions.
• Serve sandwiches open-faced, with arugula, cornichons and a lemon wedge.