My DM passed away suddenly in March of this year, so I’m coming up to my first Christmas without her.
During dinner this evening, I half-heartedly mentioned to DH that it’s stir-up Sunday this weekend so I should get the Christmas puddings done (something I always did with DM and usually one or both of my DSs), then it struck me that the legendary sauce that mum always made to go with puddings never got written down. It died with her. I sobbed for half an hour and I literally have no idea whether I was mourning my mother or the sauce --first day of AF not helping matters.
So, Mumsnet. She called it Foamy Sauce. I know it has raw eggs in it because I had to pretend to eat it one Christmas when I was newly pg with DS1 and we hadn’t told anybody yet. It also has whipped cream. I’m sure it also has a slosh of brandy plus a shit-tonne of sugar. It was so good, she’d always ‘accidentally’ make too much so we could eat it by itself after the pudding was gone, or on mince pies. It was foamy consistency, hence the name, so I think the egg whites were whipped until stiff. Egg yolks were beaten with the sugar first, maybe...?
Does this ring any bells with anyone?? She wasn’t one for inventing her own recipes so she must have got/adapted it from somewhere long before I was born. She was from the US originally, if that’s a clue.