Sweet Sauce for Puddings

Ingredients

• 1/2 pint melted butter made with milk
• 4 heaped teaspoonfuls of pounded sugar
• flavouring
• of grated lemon-rind, or nutmeg, or cinnamon

Instructions

1. Make 1/2 pint of melted butter by recipe No. 380, omitting the salt;
2. stir in the sugar, add a little grated lemon-rind, nutmeg, or powdered cinnamon, and serve.
3. Previously to making the melted butter, the milk can be flavoured with bitter almonds, by infusing about half a dozen of them in it for about 1/2 hour; the milk should then be strained before it is added to the other ingredients.
4. This simple sauce may be served for children with rice, batter, or bread pudding.