Sauce for Cottage Pudding.

2 cups of powdered sugar.
2 tablespoonfuls of butter.
1 cup of boiling water.
1 glass sherry wine.
Nutmeg or cinnamon to taste.

Rub the butter into the sugar; add hot water gradually; then spice and wine. Cover tightly to keep in the strength of the wine, and set for twenty minutes in a saucepan of boiling water. Stir up and send to table.

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