Maple Sugar Sauce

Ingredients

• 3 ounces brown sugar
• four table spoons butter mixed
• nutmeg
• orange peel

Directions

1. Melt over a slow fire, in a small tea-cup of water, half a pint maple sugar; let it simmer, removing all scum; add four table spoons butter mixed with a level tea-spoon flour, and one of grated nutmeg; boil for a few moments and serve with boiled puddings,

2. ORANGE HARD SAUCE,

3. Select a thin orange, cut the skin into sis equal parts, by cutting through the skin at the stem end and passing the knife around the orange to near the blossom end; loosen and turn each piece down and remove the orange, Extract juice and mix it with yellow sugar (prepared by dropping a drop or two of - gold coloring" on white sugar while stirring it) till a ball can be formed, which place inside the orange peel and serve, The "gold coloring" maybe omitted; Lemon sauce may be made in the same way.

4. PINE-APPLE SAUCE,

5. Mix butter and sugar, flavor with pine-apple (or any other flavoring), form a pyramid, and wick a tea-spoon shape it like a pine-apple,

6. PLAIN CREAM SAUCE,

7. I pint cream. 3 ounces brown sugar,

8. ^ small nutmeg grated,

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.