There will be many readers who are still making their way through their plum puddings. The following recipe for Mrs Hanrahan’s Sauce for Christmas pudding comes from Darina Allen’s A Simply Delicious Christmas.
This delicious sauce will give extra oomph to pudding served on the Ninth Day of Christmas.
The following makes a large quantity, notes Allen, but the base will keep for several weeks in the fridge, so you can use a little at a time, adding whipped cream to taste.
8 ozs (225 g/scant 1¼ cups) Barbados sugar (moist, soft, dark-brown sugar)
2½ fl ozs (62 ml/generous ¼ cup) port
2½ fl ozs (62 ml/generous ¼ cup) medium sherry
2¼ - 2½ pints (1.3-1.4 L/5¾-6¼ cups) lightly-whipped cream
4 ozs (110 g/1 stick) butter
1 egg
