Hard sauce
Hard sauce is a sweet, rich dessert sauce made by creaming or beating butter and sugar with rum (rum butter), brandy (brandy butter), whiskey, sherry (sherry butter), vanilla or other flavourings. it is served cold, often with hot desserts. it is typically served with plum pudding, bread pudding, indian pudding, hasty pudding, and other heavy puddings as well as with fruitcakes and gingerbread. in the u.k. brandy butter and rum butter are particularly associated with the christmas and new year season and christmas pudding and warm mince pies, serving as a seasonal alternative to cream, ice cream or custard. at cambridge, it is also known as senior wrangler sauce. rum butter specifically i...
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