Caramel Sauce - American Recipe

Caramel Sauce

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Enamelled frying-pan, Spoon

A fundamental caramel sauce used across many classic American recipes.

Ingredients

• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup boiling water

Method

1. Put — the sugar in the frying-pan, place over the fire, and stir with a spoon constantly, reducing the heat as the sugar begins to melt.
2. When — all the sugar is melted, add the boiling water slowly.
3. Stir — over the fire until the sugar again dissolves.

Tags: sugar · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)