Wine Sauce

Wine sauce was a standard Victorian accompaniment for sweets, especially puddings. The first of these recipes occurs late in Mrs Crocombe’s manuscript, but she recommends it to go with several of her earlier recipes, including college puddings, sponge cake pudding, custard pudding and castle puddings. There were many variations on this theme, and the second of those given here is an earlier version, from Eliza Acton, from