Lemon Sauce

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cupful butter
  • 1 1/2 cupfuls sugar
  • 1 egg well-beaten
  • 1 lemon, juice and grated rind
  • 1 teaspoonful nutmeg, grated
  • 1 pint boiling water

Directions

Cream the butter and sugar and beat all together for five or ten minutes; add the boiling water gradually. Keep hot over steam, but do not let boil. Suitable for almost any pudding or dumpling.