Plain Pudding Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 1 tablespoon flour
• -| cup boiling water
• any flavoring desired

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter, sugar, and flour together, add beaten egg white, and boiling water.

2. 2

   This makes a good sauce for ordinary uses.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 246. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN PUDDING SAUCE — Beat together thoroughly, 1 table- spoon butter, 4 tablespoons sugar, and 1 tablespoon flour; add the white of 1 egg, well beaten, and -| cup boiling water, and any flavor- ing desired. This makes a good sauce for ordinary uses, although most sauce recipes call for more butter. It goes well with any hot pudding. PLUM PUDDING SAUCE.— Rub 2 spoons of corn^starch smooth with a little milk, and stir it into 1 pint of boiling water; add a large piece of butter, and use currant jelly to flavor it with. It may be well to know that a good foundation for plum pudding sauce is the liquor in which it was boiled, as that is quite rich. Plum Pudding Sauce No. 2.— Use fresh butter and pulverized or granulated sugar beaten together until the mixture becomes of the consistency of cream. SWEET PUDDING SAUCE.— Beat to a cream ^ cup butter and 1 cup sugar; thicken 1^ cups boiling water with a very little corn- starch (just enough to make it creamy); let it boil, draw to the back of the stove, and stir the butter and sugar in quickly. Flavor with vanilla, lemon, nutmeg, or anything preferred. VANILLA SAUCE — Use the yolk of 1 egg, whites of 2 eggs, ^ cuj) sugar (powdered), 3 tablespoons sweet milk, 1 teaspoon of PUDDINGS 321 vanilla. First beat to a stiff froth the whites of 2 eggs; beat the sugar in next; then the yolk of egg, and the milk and vanilla last. Serve at once. Most suitable for light puddings. VINEGAR SAUCE. — Use 1 tablespoon of flour, 1^ tablespoons of vinegar, 1 cup sugar, 2 cups boiling water, 1 teaspoon of butter, a pinch of salt, nutmeg. Mix the flour in a little water and stir in the vinegar, sugar, salt and nutmeg; add the boiling water, and boil 10 minutes; add the butter last, just as it is about to be taken from the stove. WHITE PUDDING SAUCE — Take 1 cup granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon butter

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