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Hard Sauce for Cake Recipe

My grandmother often dressed up leftover plain cake with this sauce. It also goes well with gingerbread. For fun, I love to page through my great-grandmother's old cookbooks.

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Hard Sauce for Cake Recipe

Prep/Total Time: 20 min.

Yield: 8 Servings

5 15 20

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups boiling water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup butter

Directions

In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt. Gradually stir in water until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 15 minutes until smooth, thickened and clear. Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla and butter. Serve warm over cake. Yield: 1 cup.

Nutritional Analysis: 2 tablespoons equals 155 calories, 6 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 15 mg cholesterol, 206 mg sodium, 27 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein.

Originally published as Hard Sauce for Cake in Grandma's Great Desserts Cookbook , p11