hard sauce
a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
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How to use hard sauce in a sentence
You can use a hard sauce, which is butter and sugar mixed together in equal quantities, with any flavoring you like.
Christmas pudding is especially good when served with hard sauce, although other sauce may be used with it.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesTo serve with a pudding of this kind, a cream or a hard sauce should be made.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesRemove from the oven, cut into squares, and serve with cream or hard sauce.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesHer patronage rolled off of Mrs. Bill Petticoat like hard sauce off a hot apple dumpling.
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British Dictionary definitions for hard sauce
another name for brandy butter
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