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Brandy or Wine Sauce, No. 1

Ingredients

• 1 heaping teaspoonful of cornstarch, or 1 tablespoonful of sifted flour
• 1 cupful of sugar
• piece of butter as large as an egg
• 1/2 cupful of brandy or wine

Instructions

Stir cornstarch in a little cold water to a smooth paste (or instead use sifted flour); add to it a cupful of boiling water, with sugar, butter, boil all together ten minutes. Remove from the fire and when cool stir into it brandy or wine. It should be about as thick as thin syrup.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887).