Name: Brandy Sauce
Ingredients: 1 pint plain custard; 1 glass of brandy

Brandy Sauce

Ingredients

1 pint plain custard
1 glass of brandy

Directions

Add the glass of brandy to the pint of custard.
Serve hot or cold.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Plain custard: Forms the creamy base of the sauce, giving it body and a smooth, pourable texture.
Brandy: Adds a warm, aromatic flavour that cuts through the sweetness of the custard.

“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.