Name: Raspberry Sauce
Ingredients: ½ cup sugar; ½ cup water; 1 quart raspberries

Raspberry Sauce

Ingredients

½ cup sugar
½ cup water
1 quart raspberries

Directions

Make the sauce

Boil sugar and water for 10 minutes.
Let the mixture cool, then add the slightly mashed raspberries.
Pass everything through a vegetable ricer.

Serve

Serve cold with vanilla ice cream.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Sugar: Sweetens the sauce and, dissolved in boiled water, forms a syrup that carries the raspberry flavour.
Raspberries: Supply the main fruit flavour, colour and body of the sauce once mashed and strained.

“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.