Prune Sauce

This recipe appears in The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie, a thoughtful survey of Victorian cuisine. Beginning in the 1850s, Lady Clark gathered recipes from hostesses and cooks for nearly five decades, testing them first in the kitchen at Tillypronie before deeming them good enough to be included in the collection.

In this simple sauce, the natural sweetness of the prunes is heightened by the additon of a small amount of sugar, but