Subj : hard sauce
To   : DAVE DRUM
From : JIM WELLER
Date : Mon Oct 03 2022 22:54:00

-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Jim Weller <=-

 DD> it was called hard sauce because of the hard liquor used in it.

Well, uh, okay.

 DD> Her sauce was not hard when cold - just somewhat thicker than
 DD> when warmed.

My mom made a sauce much like that too, but with flour, for
Christmas time plum puddings. She called it simply "pudding sauce".

The real thing, like the one in your second recipe, can be molded
and shaped for fancy presentations.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: John Nott's Mother's Plum Pudding
 Categories: Pudding, Holiday, Heirloom, Jw, Tnt
      Yield: 1 Pudding
 
      1 lb Raisins; stoned
      1 lb Currants; cleaned
      1 lb Brown sugar
      1 lb Suet; chopped fine
      1 lb Bread crumbs; fine
      1 lb [?] mixed citron, lemon and
           -orange peel; cut fine [how
           -much?]
      1    Nutmeg
     12    Eggs
      2    Or 3 large handfuls of flour
    1/2    Teacup of good liquor
           Sauce:
      1 c  Brown sugar
      1 c  Butter
           Yolk of one egg
      1    Wineglass of good liquor
 
  Break in 12 eggs and mix all well, stirring a good while and adding 2
  or 3 large handfuls of flour and a half a teacup of good liquor.
  Scald your cloth and flour it well. Tie the pudding pretty tight. It
  does not swell much. Boil six hours.
  
  Sauce: beat the butter and sugar to a cream and stir in the yolk. Put
  it on top of the stove to simmer but do not let it boil. Pour in a
  wine glass of good liquor and serve hot.
  
  John Nott's mother is my maternal grandfather's first wife. This
  recipe was given to my mother by her half-brother John around 1946
  and recorded in her personal recipe book word for word.

  Jim Weller
 
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Cheers

Jim                                                 

.... I said "big" instead of "grande" at Starbucks once ...
.... They dragged me out behind the store's dumpster and beat me up.

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