Brandy or Wine Sauce. No. 1

Original Recipe

Stir a heaping teaspoonful of cornstarch in a little cold water to a smooth paste (or instead use a tablespoonful of sifted flour); add to it a cupful of boiling water, with one cupful of sugar, a piece of butter as large as an egg, boil all together ten minutes. Remove from the fire and when cool stir into it half of a cupful of brandy or wine. It should be about as thick as thin syrup.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cupful of boiling water
  • 1 cupful of sugar
  • 1 piece of butter as large as an egg
  • 10 minutes
  • 1 cupful of brandy or wine

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Stir a heaping teaspoonful of cornstarch in a little cold water to a smooth paste (or instead use a tablespoonful of sifted flour); add to it a cupful of boiling water, with one cupful of sugar, a piece of butter as large as an egg, boil all together ten minutes.

  2. 2

    Remove from the fire and when cool stir into it half of a cupful of brandy or wine.

  3. 3

    It should be about as thick as thin syrup.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)