Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Fruit Pudding Sauce. ✠

• ½ cup butter.
• 2½ cups sugar.
• 1 dessert spoonful corn-starch wet in a little cold milk.
• 1 lemon—juice and half the grated peel.
• 1 glass of wine.
• 1 cup boiling water.

Cream the butter and sugar well; pour the corn-starch into the boiling water and stir over a clear fire until it is well thickened; put all together in a bowl and beat five minutes before returning to the saucepan. Heat once, almost to the boiling point, add the wine, and serve.