bread-sauce

She detested bread-sauce, which, as she said, looked like a poultice and tasted like soap; she objected to the consumption of beer by her maid-servants; and she affirmed that the

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

The brace of partridges, then, and the moor-hen, I shot on the other side of Dorney Common; the milk for the bread-sauce, came as usual from the old black and white cow.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

"It should have been bread-sauce," put in Cadbury.

Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War Florence Coombe

Serve with gravy in the dish, and plenty of bread-sauce in a sauce-tureen.

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

A cantankerous tripper asks "why he never has bread-sauce with the nightly chicken."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 27, 1892 Various

The woman, looking alarmedly at her, murmured the word "bread-sauce?" and sucked in her cheeks.

A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

By the way, you won't forget what I said about the bread-sauce, will you?

Second Plays 1919

And so don't forget to tell cook about the bread-sauce, will you, dear?

Second Plays 1919

And you think what every other fellow thinks, and talk what every other fellow talks, and eat what every other -- I suppose _you_ didn't like the bread-sauce this evening?

Second Plays 1919

One doesn't need to be very romantic not to want to talk about bread-sauce.

Second Plays 1919