RizzieFarms • The Chicken Cookbook

Tastes Like Chicken!

From the 1992 cookbook

Sauces

Plum Sweet-And-Sour Sauce

Servings: 5 2/3 cups

The enjoyment of deep-fried appetizers is enhanced when accompanied with hot Chinese mustard and the sweet-sour plum sauce.

Ingredients

  • 1 can (20 oz) crushed pineapple in heavy syrup
  • 1 C sugar
  • 1 C water
  • 1 C vinegar
  • 1 T dark soy sauce
  • 2 T cornstarch
  • 2 T cold water
  • 1 C plum sauce or plum jam (See NOTE)

Instructions

  1. Heat pinapple (with syrup), sugar, 1 cup water, vinegar and soy sauce to boiling.
  2. Mix together cornstarch and 2 tablespoons cold water.
  3. Stir into pineapple mixture.
  4. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.
  5. Cool to room temperature.
  6. Stir in plum sauce.
  7. Cover and refrigerate.
  8. Serve with appetizers.
  9. NOTE: Orange marmalade can be substituted for the plum sauce.
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