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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard sauce¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

You can use a hard sauce, which is butter and sugar mixed together in equal quantities, with any flavoring you like.

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Christmas pudding is especially good when served with hard sauce, although other sauce may be used with it.

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To serve with a pudding of this kind, a cream or a hard sauce should be made.

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Remove from the oven, cut into squares, and serve with cream or hard sauce.

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Her patronage rolled off of Mrs. Bill Petticoat like hard sauce off a hot apple dumpling.

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