Rum Butter Sauce




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      Sauce




This is a variant of the traditional North of England recipe for rum butter.   Ever since I found it, it has become a part of our regular Christmas fare.   I serve it—rather than the traditional English hard sauce—with our Christmas pudding, along with thick cream (usually canned thick cream).   Of course, after the heavy main course, no one feels like having dessert straightaway; so the pudding with its trimmings gets served a couple of hours later, when our stomachs have had a chance to recover.


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Ingredients


4 oz butter (unsalted)
6 oz dark brown sugar
3 fl. oz dark rum
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg
1 tsp orange oil


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Directions


Melt the butter in a small saucepan.   Stir in the brown sugar until it dissolves.   Gradually pour in the run, stirring constantly with a spurtle or wooden spoon.   Add the spices and orange oil, and blend in.   If the sauce has a tendency to separate, pour it into a mixing bowl and whisk it with a blender at low speed.

Pour into a dish or pot, and leave to cool.

Makes about a cup and a half of sauce.


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