Fruit Sauce

Name: Fruit Sauce
Ingredients: sugar to sweeten; lemon juice, if liked; 1 teasp. (rounded) arrowroot to each ½ pt. purée; 1 teasp. (rounded) arrowroot to each ½ pt. purée; 1 lb. bottled or fresh fruit; 1 lb. bottled or fresh fruit; a very little water to stew

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Fruits suitable are: Damsons, Plums, Raspberries, Redcurrants, Blackberries.

Ingredients

1 lb. bottled or fresh fruit
a very little water to stew

Sauce

Method

Stew the fruit in the water till soft, sieve it. Sweeten, flavour and thicken the sauce with arrowroot blended with a little cold water or fruit juice.