Sauces
Brandy Sauce
Cream together four heaping table-spoons of sugar (white) and four table-spoons, well-rounded, of soft butter; with this mix a gill of…
Butterless Sauce
Place one-half a gill of milk in a pan in boiling water; when scalding put in half a pint of powdered sugar mixed with the yolks of two…
Cider Sauce
Mix two table-spoons butter with an even table-spoon of flour; stir in half a pint of brown sugar, and half a gill of boiled cider; add a…
Cocoa-Nut Sauce
Two table-spoons butter, cup of sugar, table-spoon of flour, milk of one cocoa-nut, with a small piece grated.
Cream Sauce (One tea-cup powdered white)
One tea-cup powdered white sugar, scant half tea-cup butter, half tea-cup rich cream; beat butter and sugar thoroughly, add cream, stir the…
Fine French Sauce
Cream a small cup of sugar, and one (scant) of butter; add beaten yolk, or white if preferred, and a gill of wine; simmer a few moments…
Plain Cream Sauce
One pint cream, three table-spoons brown sugar, and half a small nutmeg grated.
Every-Day Sauce
To one pint boiling water, add heaping tea-cup sugar, table-spoon butter (see General Directions), pinch of salt, and table-spoon corn…
Foaming Sauce
Beat whites of three eggs to a stiff froth; melt tea-cup of sugar in a little water, let it boil, stir in one glass wine, and then the…
Jelly Sauce
Melt one ounce of sugar and two table-spoons grape jelly over the fire in a half pint of boiling water, and stir into it half a tea-spoon…
Lemon Sauce (Two cups sugar two eggs juice)
Two cups sugar, two eggs, juice and rind of two lemons; beat all together, and just before serving add pint boiling water; set on stove…
Maple Sugar Sauce
Melt over a slow fire, in a small tea-cup of water, half a pint maple sugar; let it simmer, removing all scum; add four tablespoons butter…
Minnehaha Sauce
Beat, in a two quart bowl, four table-spoons butter and two thirds pint brown sugar, to a cream, with a wooden spoon; then add four…
Orange Hard Sauce
Select a thin orange, cut the skin into six equal parts, by cutting through the skin at the stem end and passing the knife around the…
Pine-Apple Sauce
Mix two table-spoons butter and four heaping table-spoons sugar (some add white of an egg), flavor with pine-apple (or any other…
Strawberry Sauce
Half tea-cup of butter, one and a half tea-cups of sugar, and one pint of strawberries mashed till juicy. (Canned berries may be…
Vinegar Sauce
One and a half cups sugar, one and a half table-spoons flour in a little water, two table-spoons vinegar, quarter of a grated nutmeg, and a…
Whipped Cream Sauce
Whip a pint of thick sweet cream, add the beaten whites of two eggs, sweeten to taste; place pudding in center of dish, and surround with…