hard sauce

American  

noun

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

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hard sauce British  

noun

1. another name for brandy butter

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Etymology

Origin of hard sauce

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Times

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.

From New York Times

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

From Seattle Times

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

From Literature

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

From BusinessWeek