Rum Butter Sauce (for Mince Pie)

Ingredients

  • 3/4- Cup Granulated sugar
  • 1/8 tsp. Salt,
  • ½ cup white Karo
  • ½ Cup butter or margarine
  • 1 Cup Light cream
  • ½ tsp. Vanilla
  • Rum to taste (either the real thing or flavoring)

Preparation

Step 1

In sauce pan, combine sugar, salt, syrup, butter, ½ cup cream. Cook slowly, stirring frequently, to 250 F. On candy thermometer, or until a little mixture in cold water forms a hard ball. Add ½ C. Cream, cook to 216 F. Or until a little mixture forms threads when dropped from spoon.

Remove from heat; add flavoring Very rich.

Mom 11/16/64