American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Sauce for Plum Pudding

Original Recipe

Cream together a cupful of sugar and half a cupful of butter; when light and creamy, add the well-beaten yolks of four eggs. Stir into this one wine-glass of wine or one of brandy, a pinch of salt and one large cupful of hot cream or rich milk. Beat this mixture well; place it in a saucepan over the fire, stir it until it cooks sufficiently to thicken like cream. Be sure and not let it boil. Delicious.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cupful of sugar and half a cupful of butter
  • 10 yolks of four eggs
  • 1 of brandy
  • 1 pinch of salt and one large cupful of hot cream or rich milk
  • 1 saucepan over the fire

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Cream together a cupful of sugar and half a cupful of butter; when light and creamy, add the well-beaten yolks of four eggs.

  2. 2

    Stir into this one wine-glass of wine or one of brandy, a pinch of salt and one large cupful of hot cream or rich milk.

  3. 3

    Beat this mixture well; place it in a saucepan over the fire, stir it until it cooks sufficiently to thicken like cream.

  4. 4

    Be sure and not let it boil.

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