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Wine Sauce

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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. a wineglass of wine
  2. a gill of brandy
  3. a pound of sweS butter
  4. Nutmeg
  5. Cream
  6. a pound of sugar

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Beat quarter of a pound of sweS butter to a cream, add gradually to it quarter of pound of fine white sugar and a wineglass of wine, with half a nutmeg grated ;
  2. continue to beat it until it is hght and white, then mould it in a neat and serve.
  3. Brandy Sauce.— Make as directed for sauce, substituting Wmidy for wine.
  4. 4UID Brandy or Wine-sauce.
  5. — To quarter of a pound of butter put a quarter of a pound of sugar and a gill of brandy ;
  6. grate half a nutmeg into it, make it hot and ^er^u.
  7. Or it may be beaten well together and served cold.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Grater
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Credit

From Mrs. Crowen's American lady's cookery book (1847), printed page 204, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrscrowensameric00crow_0

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.