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

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hard sauce

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

To make hard sauce take a half-cup of butter and cream it with a fork; add a cupful of sugar and beat until nicely mixed and creamy.

From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)