Sauces

Transcribed by Dee Stalioraitis

Chocolate Sauce

One square unsweetened chocolate, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1/3 cup boiling water, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.

Cream for Cottage Pudding

One cup of sweet milk; heat it until boiling; beat together the whites of 2 eggs; 1 tablespoon white sugar, piece of butter size of nutmeg; add 1/2 cup of cold milk and 1 teaspoon cornstarch; stir well together until very light and smooth; add it to the boiling milk and cook until it thickens. It must not boil.

Hot Chocolate Sauce

One cup sugar, 1/2 cup thin cream or milk, 1 tablespoon butter, 11/2 squares chocolate, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Put ingredients except vanilla in sauce pan; bring to boiling point and let boil 7 minutes, stirring constantly. Flavor and serve while hot.

Mrs. W. H. Denlinger

Sauce for Cottage Pudding

One-half cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 pint boiling water. Cream butter and sugar; add boiling water and teaspoon of cornstarch, moistened in cold water. Let boil until thick like cream then flavor with vanilla, lemon or wine. Do not let stand on stove after having come to boil and sauce will be very foamy.

Mrs. John R. Gearhart

Lemon Sauce

Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup hot water, nutmeg to taste.

Mrs. H. P. Bridge

Hard Sauce

2 cups powdered sugar, 1/4 cup butter. Beat to a cream. Flavor to taste.

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