Pudding Sauces (dessert puddings)

[Loyalist Dave]

So you have a nice Rolly Polly, or Plum Duff, Spotted Dick, Plumb pudding, or Figgee pudding..., you simply MUST serve it with the proper sauce...,

"Hard Sauce"..., well technically almost all of the below are hard sauces...., and I thought the stuff was done only one way...

Hard Sauce..., cream a sick of unsalted butter, 1/2 cup of granulated white sugar, and an ounce of rum...,
Rum Butter, ...as above BUT you use dark brown sugar instead of granulated, white sugar, and often nutmeg too.
Brandy Butter..., you'd think you'd simply do as above but substitute brandy for the rum, BUT NOPE, it's brandy and butter and confectioner's sugar with a little water. The Brits call the sugar "icing sugar". It does make a difference...it's smoother when done.
Bandy Sauce, is a tad more involved, and I think it was to stretch the butter at hand, it's 1/2 stick of butter, 1/8 cup of white flour, 1 pint of whole milk, 1/8 cup of white sugar, and 3 ounces of brandy.

You can do different brandies for any of the alcohol ingredients in any of the above, or even whiskey if you wish, and you can also do sherry...

And if you're from Northern England you don't do hard-sauce on pudding, you do vanilla custard, cooked then chilled.

LD

 

[BullRunBear]

Dave, Thanks for those recipes. They sound delicious. I wonder if they will work with Splenda sugar substitute. (Gotta watch the carbs.)

Just FYI, the latest Youtube video from Townsends called "A Topping For Christmas Apple Pie From 1769" shows making a dessert cream sauce.

Jeff

 

[tenngun]

They do work with Splenda... and you do cutthe carbs abit, spends has a brown sugar too... but this is butter and booze, we’re not talking health food here.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

They do work with Splenda... and you do cutthe carbs abit, spends has a brown sugar too... but this is butter and booze, we’re not talking health food here.

Yes, poured over a slice from a ball of cooked, white flour, containing melted beef fat, sugar, and sugary dried fruit...., can you say "ball o' cholesterol" ?

LD