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hard sauce

noun

  1. a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.



hard sauce

noun

  1. another name for brandy butter

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hard sauce1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

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Dessert was plum pudding and hard sauce, ice cream and cake, coffee, plus salted nuts and “assorted bonbons.”

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There are steamed puddings, too, like the famous Christmas pudding, cooked over steam rather than baked in the oven, and served warm with a jug of pouring cream or boozy hard sauce.

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Not surprisingly, her desserts include a stellar bread pudding studded with dark chocolate and draped in bourbon-spiked hard sauce.

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The dessert was a sort of black bread pudding with hard sauce.

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A fluffy chocolate souflee or the spicy Dickensian Christmas pudding served with hard sauce help erase the spirits of entrees past.

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