Coffee Sauce

Name: Coffee Sauce
Ingredients: ¼ pt. very strong coffee; ¼ pt. milk; 1 teasp. rum (optional); vanilla essence (optional); sugar to taste; 1 egg yolk; 1heaped teasp. cornflour or custard powder; 1heaped teasp. cornflour or custard powder

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

¼ pt. very strong coffee
¼ pt. milk
1heaped teasp.

Sauce

Method

Thicken the coffee and milk with the cornflour or custard powder (see Cornflour Sauce). Cool the sauce, add the egg yolk and cook it without boiling. Sweeten and flavour to taste.