Apricot Dessert Sauce

Sweetly delicious served over bread puddings, cakes or apple dumplings. From the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Yields: 1 cup

Ingredients

• 1  teaspoon cornstarch
• 2  tablespoons sugar
• 1  teaspoon butter
• 1  cup  apricot juice
• 1  teaspoon lemon juice (fresh is best)

Directions

1. Combine cornstarch and sugar.
2. Add butter and juice gradually, stirring constantly; boil until thickened, at least five minutes.
3. Add lemon juice and simmer an additional 5 minutes.