Sauce Without Butter for Boiled Puddings

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon flour
• 2 tablespoons water
• wine
• lemon peel
• 1 clarified suet
• nutmeg
• sugar
• water
• lemon juice
• essence of noyeau or almonds

Instructions

1. Mix a table-spoonful of flour with two table-spoonsful of water.
2. Add a little wine, grated lemon peel, a small bit of clarified suet of the size of a walnut, grated nutmeg, and sugar.
3. Put it on in a saucepan, stirring one way, and adding water if too thick.
4. Lemon juice, or essence of noyeau, or almonds may be substituted to vary the flavour.