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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hard sauce1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

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

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.

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

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

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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