HARD SAUCE Definition & Meaning

hard sauce

noun

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

hard sauce

noun

another name for brandy butter

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Origin of hard sauce¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

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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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