hard sauce

American  

noun

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

---

hard sauce British  

noun

1. another name for brandy butter

---

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 • Dec. 24, 2018

Though circled with a crown of holly sprigs and served warm with hard sauce, it has the same culprits for ingredients — “plum” is the generic word for dried fruit in England.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2011

Chef Rufus Flint, who is sane, took a taste of the hard sauce, and dumped it.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

A hard sauce used in connection with the hot one is a great improvement.

From The Cookery Blue Book by First Unitarian Society of San Francisco. Society for Christian Work