Kitchen gifts: sauces.
I have a number of recipes for dessert sauces. These make fantastic gifts for special occasions, as they are usually made on a small scale and kept in the refrigerator. Made ahead of time, they can be taken along and gifted to a generous hostess as a thank you for a fantastic meal, or as a perfect way to finish a birthday dinner.
Most often, these sauces can be stored in a clean pint jar in the refrigerator. If you are comfortable with hot water canning procedures, it is possible to seal the jars and keep them in the back of your fridge until the right time presents itself. Usually by the time you have gone to the trouble of putting together one of these sauces, you pretty much want to try it right away.
Dessert sauces follow a pretty standard rotation in terms of how to serve (at least as far as I am concerned). Here’s my reasoning: if it stays still on the dish, it qualifies to have sauce cover it. There ya go.
Some sauces automatically go better with particular recipes; for example, lemon sauce tastes wonderful on gingerbread, as does butterscotch sauce, but lemon sauce. always. goes. on. pound cake. I think it is a law. However, all the sauces would be wonderful over pancakes or ice cream, or, if you play your cards right, with a spoon!
So, I’m going to post a number of the sauce recipes that I have had stuck in my recipe file for a while now. Keep them on hand and try them on the weekend for your family. Mix up a batch of pancakes or waffles and try the rhubarb sauce particularly. If you ever had a Grandmother that made you rhubarb pie, as I did, it will bring back all sorts of fantastic flavorful memories.
Anyway, try out a few sauces so you know which ones you like and which don’t work for you. Then when Christmas comes, you will know which sauces you will be able to crank out quickly as great gifts finally. You know what I mean. We always mean to bake up a mess of this or that as gifts, but never get it done. Well, right now we are in our experimenting months, when we try out the recipes to see what will work. So try out these sauces and come Christmas, you will know which ones to make to tuck into your Christmas care packages.
Here is the list of dessert sauce recipes that I will be posting:
This should probably be enough to keep you busy in the kitchen for a day or two, cooking up a storm. Kitchen gifts never seem to go out of style, particularly in these days of plastic mass produced one-size-fits-all burgerbarn feedbags. Do everyone a favor and cook something from your heart. The flavor will show the love that you put into it, and the person you gift these to will know. They will be able to taste the difference.
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