Name: Pineapple Sauce
Ingredients: 1 tea- spoon any liquor preferred

Pineapple Sauce

A hot pineapple sauce made with canned pineapple, liquor, sugar, and lemon peel, boiled for six minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 1 ingredients

Pineapple Sauce

Ingredients

1 tea- spoon any liquor preferred

Directions

Heat 1 cup canned pineapple liquor in a saucepan with 1 cup white sugar and 1 lemon peel.
Let it boil 6 minutes.
Add 1 teaspoon of any preferred liquor.
Serve hot with a hot pudding.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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What each ingredient does

Canned pineapple liquor: Forms the liquid base that cooks down into the sauce.
White sugar (in the method): Adds sweetness and helps thicken the sauce as it boils.
Lemon peel (in the method): Adds a bright citrus aroma to the sauce.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.