Cherry Sauce for Sweet Puddings

Ingredients

• 1 lb cherries
• 1 tablespoonful flour
• 1 oz butter
• 1/2 pint water
• 1 wineglassful port wine
• a little grated lemon-rind
• 4 pounded cloves
• 2 tablespoonful lemon-juice
• sugar to taste

Instructions

1. Stone the cherries, and pound the kernels in a mortar to a smooth paste;
2. put the butter and flour into a saucepan;
3. stir them over the fire until of a pale brown;
4. then add the cherries, the pounded kernels, the wine, and the water.
5. Simmer these gently for 1/4 hour, or until the cherries are quite cooked, and rub the whole through a hair sieve;
6. add the remaining ingredients, let the sauce boil for another 5 minutes, and serve.
7. This is a delicious sauce to serve with boiled batter pudding, and when thus used, should be sent to table poured over the pudding.