Peach Sauce(For Cake & Ice Cream) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1- 29 oz can sliced peaches
1/4 cup sugar (1/4 cup if peaches are in heavy syrup)
2 Tbsp corn starch
1/2 tsp finely grated orange peel
1/3 cup orange juice
1 Tbsp butter or margarine

Preparation

Drain peaches and save 1 1/4 cup syrup; add water if needed to make 1 1/4 cup.
Coarsely chop peaches.
In a saucepan, combine sugar and corn syrup.
Add reserved syrup.
Cook and stir until thick and bubbling, about 4 or 5 minutes.
Remove from heat.
Stir in orange peel, orange juice, butter and chopped peaches.
Store in covered bowl in refrigerator; do not stir until time to serve. Serve over ice cream, pound cake, waffles, crepes, etc.
Makes 3 cups.
Recipe can be doubled.