Isabella Beeton

Plum-Pudding Sauce

Preparation info
  • Sufficient for a pudding made for

    6

    persons.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Great Cooks and Their Recipes
Great Cooks and Their Recipes

By Anne Willan

Published 1977

  • About

As Mrs Beeton says, this is a very rich and excellent sauce, a highly alcoholic version of the usual brandy butter or hard sauce.

Ingredients

  • 1 wineglassful of brandy
  • 2 oz. of very fresh butter
  • 1

Method

Mode

Put the pounded sugar in a basin, with part of the brandy and the butter; let it stand by the side of the fire until it is warm and the sugar and butter are dissolved; then add the rest of the brandy, with the Madeira. Either pour it over the pudding, or serve in a tureen. This is a very rich and excellent sauce.