This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
In a small saucepan, over the fire, stir half a cup of sugar until it becomes a golden-brown caramel; add one pint of thin cream and set over hot water until the caramel liquifies.
2 cups of granulated sugar. 3/4 cup of water. 1/2 cup of rum.
Boil the sugar and water to a syrup of good consistency, then add the rum. This is enough sauce for baba made with four eggs.
Boil two cups of grated pineapple, the juice of half a lemon and one cup and a half of sugar five or six minutes.
Beat one whole egg and two yolks; add half a cup of sugar and beat again; add half a cup of sherry and stir and cook over hot water until thickened. Add a teaspoonful of lemon juice and let cool. When ready to serve fold in from half to three fourths cup of cream, beaten firm.
Beat half a cup of butter to a cream; beat in the yolks of two eggs, then very gradually beat in one fourth cup of wine. The wine should be added a few drops at a time. The finished sauce should be smooth and thick as cream.
 
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