hard sauce
noun
: a creamed mixture of butter and powdered sugar often with added cream and flavoring (such as vanilla or rum)
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Spoon hard sauce mixture into ramekin.
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Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
Remove plastic wrap from hard sauce and unmold onto a small plate.
—Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
Top each slice of pudding with hard sauce and garnish as desired.
—Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
There’s a cheese-charcuterie plate ($45), and desserts include figgy pudding with hard sauce ($45), walnut rugelach ($24/dozen) and Russian tea cakes ($18/dozen).
—Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
Those who ate this pudding years ago remember it as delicious, and the hard sauce, of butter and sugar rubbed together, flavored with vanilla and sprinkled with nutmeg, as no less so.
—Marley Marius, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
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.
—David Tanis, New York Times, 4 May 2018
Serve warm with cream cheese hard sauce (see recipe below).
—Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2018
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Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
Remove plastic wrap from hard sauce and unmold onto a small plate.
—Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
Top each slice of pudding with hard sauce and garnish as desired.
—Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
There’s a cheese-charcuterie plate ($45), and desserts include figgy pudding with hard sauce ($45), walnut rugelach ($24/dozen) and Russian tea cakes ($18/dozen).
—Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
Those who ate this pudding years ago remember it as delicious, and the hard sauce, of butter and sugar rubbed together, flavored with vanilla and sprinkled with nutmeg, as no less so.
—Marley Marius, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
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.
—David Tanis, New York Times, 4 May 2018
Serve warm with cream cheese hard sauce (see recipe below).
—Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 6 Feb. 2018
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