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Plum Butter Sauce

4 servings

Ingredients

• plum butter (as needed)
• hot water (as needed)
• cinnamon (small piece)
• cloves (some)
• lemon zest (a little)
• sugar (as needed)

Instructions

1. Whisk plum butter with enough hot water to create a thick sauce.
2. Bring it to a boil with a small piece of cinnamon, some cloves, a little lemon zest, and the necessary sugar, then let it cool.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.